Caren Beilin Caren Beilin was born in Philadelphia in 1983. She is the author of the novel Revenge of the Scapegoat, which won the Vermont Book Award for Fiction. Her other books are Blackfishing the IUD, Spain, The University of Pennsylvania, and Americans, Gusts, or Us. Sea, Poison is her most recent novel. She lives in Cleveland and Philadelphia and teaches at Case Western Reserve University. Read More Read Less