Esther Schor is a poet and professor of English at Princeton University. Her most recent book is Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language, both a cultural history of the language-movement and a memoir of her seven years among Esperantists in the U. S., Vietnam, Turkey, Cuba, Holland, Brazil and Uzebekistan. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement, Tablet Magazine and the Forward.