Leah Cohen is a storyteller, translator, and award-winning educator of both children and adults. A native Israeli, Leah moved to Southern California in 1986 and has since founded an adult learning academy and lectured extensively in a university setting. Her fourth illustrated children book was published in 2010. Currently, Ms. Cohen lives in New York, teaching and writing short stories. A grandmother of two young children, Ms. Cohen now focuses on writing short stories and memories in a way of communicating her past to the next generation.