Car­o­line Igra grew up in Philadel­phia and, after grad­u­at­ing from Brown Uni­ver­si­ty, col­lect­ed a master’s degree at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan and a doc­tor­ate in Art His­to­ry from the Insti­tute of Fine Art, NYU. After relo­ca­tion to Israel, she con­tin­ued to devel­op her aca­d­e­m­ic career by teach­ing at both the Uni­ver­si­ty of Haifa and Hebrew Uni­ver­si­ty, curat­ing exhi­bi­tions on the work of J.D. Kirszen­baum at the Muse­um of Art, Ein Har­od and the Muse­um of the Jew­ish Peo­ple, Tel Aviv, and pub­lish­ing arti­cles in schol­ar­ly art his­to­ry jour­nals. A few years ago, she decid­ed to turn her atten­tion to non-aca­d­e­m­ic writ­ing, start­ing off with a blog named ​“Stuck in the Mid­dle” that cap­tured her expe­ri­ence as an Amer­i­can liv­ing a life in Israel, and cul­mi­nat­ing in her first nov­el, Count to a Thou­sand.