Kwok Pui-lan, from Hong Kong, is the William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge. She was the recipient of the "Excellence in Teaching Award" from the American Academy of Religion in 2009. Writing in both Chinese and English, she is the author of Discovering the Bible in the Non-Biblical World (Orbis, 1995) and the forthcoming 4-volume reference work on Women and Christianity (Routledge, 2010).