Zaha­va Goshen was born in Ethiopia in 1976. She made Aliya to Israel in 1984. She works at the wel­fare depart­ment and is a grad­u­ate with a major in edu­ca­tion and parental guid­ance. Zaha­va lives in Beit Shemesh with her fam­i­ly.

In 2016, Zaha­va received the Min­is­ter of Edu­ca­tion’s Award for Chil­dren’s Lit­er­a­ture for Gudai.