Ben Bas­tom­s­ki, a South­ern Cal­i­for­nia native and Israel Defense Forces vet­er­an, moved to San­ta Mon­i­ca, CA to prac­tice law after grad­u­at­ing from Har­vard Law School in 2015. In the years since, Ben has become an accom­plished civ­il lit­i­ga­tor, while pur­su­ing a par­al­lel career as a fash­ion mod­el with a Los Ange­les tal­ent agency. He has recent­ly returned to live in Israel and is now based in Jerusalem. Ben was raised in a Jew­ish home with a love of fur­ry and feath­ered ani­mals, cre­ation myths, and the out­doors. Among his most beloved child­hood mem­o­ries were the sign­ings he attend­ed at his favorite local book­store, Chaucer’s Books. As Figs in Autumn is his debut book.