Miriam Rock currently lives in Philadelphia and is teaching high school English at Friends Select, a local Quaker school. She did her undergrad at Yale and her masters at Penn. She spent three years living in Maryland and working at Sandy Spring Friends School. During her time at Sandy Spring, Miriam had the good fortune to lead a week-long service trip to New Mexico and spend time getting to know a Navajo weaver and Zuni Mission muralist. In addition to two sophomore classes, she is teaching a junior American Literature course and a senior elective, titled “Race, Gender and Nationality in Literature.”