Jennifer Heath is an independent scholar, award-winning cultural journalist, curator, and activist. She is the author or editor of fifteen books of fiction and non-fiction, including On the Edge of Dream: The Women of Celtic Myth and Legend; The Echoing Green: The Garden in Myth and Memory; A House White with Sorrow: A Ballad for Afghanistan; The Scimitar and the Veil: Extraordinary Women of Islam; The Veil: Women Writers on its History, Lore, and Politics; Land of the Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women; Children of Afghanistan:The Path to Peace; and Book of the Disappeared: The Quest for Transnational Justice.