Art Magazine
Photo: Courtesy of Monique Polak Photographer: John Fredericks Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I was born and raised in Montreal. My parents were immigrants from the Netherlands. My mum, who was Jewish, spent nearly two years in Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp in what is now the Czech Republic. […]
Photo: Courtesy of Lori Banov Kaufmann Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I grew up in Charleston, South Carolina but moved up north to go to college and grad school. After graduation, my husband and I made Aliyah and I worked as a strategy consultant for high-tech companies. When I […]
Photo: Courtesy of Valerie Estelle Frankel Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I’m Valerie Estelle Frankel, author of 83 books so far. I’ve won a Dream Realm Award, an Indie Excellence Award, and a USA Book News National Best Book Award for my Henry Potty parodies, the first ones I […]
Photo: Courtesy of Libi Astaire Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I grew up in Kansas, next door to Dorothy Gale and Toto too. (Just kidding.) My first love was the theatre and that journey took me from Kansas to London, where I studied acting, and then to New York, […]
Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I am an immigrant, that comes from a long line of immigrants! I was born in Buenos Aires, although my roots are in Imperial Russia. My grandparents immigrated as children, along with their parents and siblings, escaping persecution and the pogroms so common in […]
Photo: Courtesy of Arianna Brooks Please tell us a little bit about yourself and your background. I hold a Master’s degree in Elementary Education and a Bachelor’s degree in Tourism Management. Both experiences have informed my life and writing. As a debut children’s author and former third grade teacher, I’m mindful of the impact of […]
