Irene Nowell, OSB, is a member of the Benedictine community of Mount Saint Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas. She served on the translation team of the revised Old Testament of the New American Bible and the Committee on Illuminations and Texts for The Saint John's Bible. Nowell is a past president of the Catholic Biblical Association. She is the Old Testament editor for the Little Rock Catholic Study Bible, and a contributor to Give Us This Day, published by Liturgical Press. She is the author of Pleading, Cursing, Praising: Conversing with God Through the Psalms; Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, and Numbers of the New Collegeville Bible Commentary; Sing a New Song: The Psalms in the Sunday Lectionary and Women in the Old Testament (all published by Liturgical Press).