Jyl Lynn Felman is an accomplished writer and author of three books, a Brandeis professor, attorney at law and a performance artist with a national reputation who has appeared on radio and T.V. in the U.S. and abroad. She has lectured or performed at over twenty different universities around the country, including England, Canada, Australia, and the Czech Republic. In 1996 Virago Press published the UK edition of Ms. Felman's first collection of short stories, Hot Chicken Wings which was a 1993 Lambda Literary Finalist in the US and a regional Best Seller.

In addition to a law degree, Ms. Felman has an MA in English from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst where she received a Graduate Writing Fellowship. Toni Morrison selected Ms. Felman as a Finalist in the Albert Einstein Writing Fellowship Program at SUNY Albany. Many of Ms. Felman's stories have won awards. Her short stories and prose essays are widely anthologized most recently in Nice Jewish Girls, Her Face in The Mirror, and Searching For Your Soul. Her one-woman show If Only I'd Been Born A Kosher Chicken was featured on C-SPAN in 1997.

Ms. Felman is a highly sought after guest lecturer on feminist pedagogy, race, ethnicity and sexuality: Blacks and Jews, Anti-Semitism, Homophobia, and Feminism in the Jewish Community. In 2001 she was invited to lecture at the London School of Economics and to teach at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. In 1996, along with Cornell West, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and James Hillman she spoke at the Tikkun Summit On Ethics and Meaning. In 1994, she gave the keynote address for the annual feminist symposium of the American Jewish Congress.

Ms. Felman's memoir Cravings, about growing up Jewish and female, was published to wide acclaim 1997. Her most recent book, Never A Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance has created a huge demand for both public appearances and NPR interviews.