Suzanne Sapira lives in Jerusalem. She studied classical languages and ancient civilizations at the University of Iowa, where she gained an appreciation for poetic meters and Greek tragedy.

Before she went to a responsible public university, she attended a year of private art school at the Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago. She learned to draw and paint passably, if not with particular talent.

She is a lifelong storyteller and learner, enthusiastic about history, languages, art, mythology, and romance. She can read in five alphabets (though she’s pretty slow in a couple) and plays both guitar and piano at a respectably intermediate level.

Suzanne can talk forever about Julius Caesar’s assassination, the Black Death, the city of Florence, the Wars of the Roses, or Italian Renaissance paintings. Don’t ask her about them or she will exceed your patience with her blissfully clueless, long-winded enthusiasm.