In This Sign

Joanne Greenberg is an internationally renowned, award-winning author of sixteen novels and four collections of short stories, most notably the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, which has sold millions of copies and was adapted into a 1977 movie and a 2004 play of the same name. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Greenberg graduated from American University, where she majored in anthropology and English. She became interested in deaf culture through her husband, Albert, who was a vocational rehabilitation counselor for the State of Colorado. Two of her short stories were published in Outcasts and Angels: The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature, edited by Edna Edith Sayers, and In This Sign was made into an Emmy Award–winning Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie in 1985 titled Love Is Never Silent. Greenberg lives near Lookout Mountain, Colorado, where she writes daily, tutors Latin and Hebrew, is active in the Beth Evergreen congregation, has been an adjunct professor of cultural anthropology and fiction writing at the Colorado School of Mines, and has volunteered as an EMT. Her website is rosegardenwriter.com.

Sara Nović (introduction) is the author of the National Book Award finalist Mother Tongue, the New York Times bestseller True Biz, and Girl at War, which won the American Library Association’s Alex Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she studied fiction and literary translation, and is an instructor of Deaf studies and creative writing. She lives in Philadelphia with her family.