Gilah Kahn-Hoff­mann moved from Mon­tre­al to Jerusalem after study­ing the­ater, lit­er­a­ture, and com­mu­ni­ca­tions at McGill Uni­ver­si­ty. Start­ing out as a free­lance jour­nal­ist, trans­la­tor, writer, and edi­tor, she became a fea­ture writer at the Jerusalem Post and, sub­se­quent­ly, edi­tor of the paper’s youth mag­a­zines. Lat­er, dur­ing a stint as a writer at the Israel Cen­ter for the Treat­ment of Psy­chotrau­ma, she dis­cov­ered how ful­fill­ing it is to work for the ben­e­fit of oth­ers and moved to NGO work in East Jerusalem and the devel­op­ing world. In recent years, she’s come full cir­cle to her first loves and spends her best hours immersed in lit­er­ary translation.