Author Biography

I began writing fiction after more than twenty years as an international journalist in Israel, England, the Netherlands, France, and Mexico.

 

After a career with Reuters News Agency, I moved into the nonprofit sector as a director at the Harold Grinspoon Foundation. I launched and directed two reading readiness programs in Israel, one in Hebrew (Sifriyat Pijama) and one in Arabic (Maktabat al-Fanoos). During my tenure, the two programs gifted twenty million books to young children and their families and were named US Library of Congress honorees for best practices in promoting literacy. (For details see the My Other Life page.)

 

My fiction has been performed on NPR’s Selected Shorts program and appeared in magazines such as American Way, the Adirondack Review, Tikkun, and Reform Judaism. Hill of Secrets is my first full-length novel (it took me 12 years to write it!). I have an MA in literature from Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a BA in media and anthropology from Hampshire College in Massachusetts. 

 

My husband and I divide our time between Israel and Massachusetts, where I love to swim, hike, kayak, write, read and hang out with friends.