Judy Brown
**Judy Brown** wrote the controversial novel *Hush* — a finalist for the 2011 Sydney Taylor Award for outstanding book on the Jewish experience — under a pseudonym because of feared backlash from the Chassidic world. Brown’s identity has since been revealed and she has left Chassidism. She has been profiled in the *New York Times Magazine* and has written for the *Huffington Post*and the *Jewish Daily Forward*. She holds a master’s in creative writing and lives in New York City.
