Caren Schnur Neile, PhD, is a performance storyteller who has taught storytelling studies at Florida Atlantic University's School of Communication & Multimedia Studies since 2001. Dr. Neile has appeared throughout the United States and abroad, including as a university instructor in Warsaw and a Fulbright Senior Specialist in universities in Jerusalem and Vienna. She is the former chair of the National Storytelling Network and a former founding editor of the international academic journal Storytelling, Self, Society. Dr. Neile cohosts The Public Storyteller, a weekly segment on South Florida public radio WLRN 91.3 FM. Her numerous publications include a recent entry in the Oxford University Press Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies and her previous book for The History Press, Florida Lore.