Penny Cousineau-Levine is an art writer, theoretician and curator whose published works include the first in-depth study of Canadian art photography, Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination, which was shorted-listed for the Raymond Klibansky Prize for the Best English Language Publication of 2004, as well as numerous essays in art journals and exhibition catalogues. Among her curatorial projects is a major exhibit of the work of 58 Canadian photographers held at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City. She taught for many years in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa, where she served as Director of the Department and created the Department’s MFA program, and in Studio Arts at Concordia University, where she was also Director of the Department.