Gwen Strauss is the author of The Nine, The Night Shimmy, Ruth and the Green Book and a collection of poetry, Trail of Stones. Her poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including The New Republic,
Catapult, The Jewish Chronicle, New England Review, and The Kenyon Review. She was born and spent her early years in Haiti.

Strauss lives in southern France, where she is the executive director of the Dora Maar Cultural Center.