Tell us a little bit about yourself?

I’m a Jewish American. In high school, I went to Israel with our rabbi’s daughter knowing next to nothing about the situation there. I returned seven years later knowing more than I ever wanted to know. I studied Middle Eastern studies and graduated from law school. I wanted to help bring about change, but there was nothing that could be done. After a decade of college, I wanted to put the whole conflict behind me. I attempted to bury it and return to who I was before I witnessed the horrible situation in Israel.
 
I was able to bury the past for over a decade until I read The Kite Runner. My past clawed its way out. What I learned from The Kite Runner is that a writer can reach into readers’ hearts and change them. That’s when I decided to become a writer. I was finally ready to tell the story that had been inside me for two decades.