Vivian Cohen-Leisorek is a Guatemalan-Israeli writer whose work has appeared in The Tel Aviv Review of Books, Busi­ness­Week Online, and Under­ground, and pub­lish­es a pop­u­lar Sub­stack diary about the Octo­ber 7 War. She cur­rent­ly work­ing on a mem­oir about her year vol­un­teer­ing with injured sol­diers in Israel’s largest hospital.