Enid Dame (Ph.D., Rutgers University) was a poet, writer and teacher whose work focused on women's and Jewish themes. She taught Creative Writing at Rutgers, conducted writing workshops at various places, including colleges, alternative high schools, libraries, community centers and synagogues, and presented programs on Jewish women poets and midrashic poetry to the Religious Diversity Seminars sponsored by New Jersey Council for the Humanities. She received a Creative Artist in Public Service fellowship for poetry from New York State. Her books of poetry include LiIith and her Demons and Anything You Don't See. She was co-editor of the anthology Which Lilith? Feminist Writers Recreate the World's First Women.. She served on the editorial Committees of Bridges and Jewish Women's Literary Annual. With her husband, the poet Donald Lev, she co-edited Home Planet News, a literary tabloid. She was a Lecturer at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Enid Dame taught for ICM in 1997 and was a contributor to Living Text: The Journal of Contemporary Midrash.