Lev­ana Moshon was born in Tel Aviv and cur­rent­ly lives in Givat Shmuel. She grad­u­at­ed from Bar-Ilan Uni­ver­si­ty with a degree in edu­ca­tion and geog­ra­phy, and is a writer, jour­nal­ist, teacher, and sto­ry­teller. She has pub­lished forty books for chil­dren and young adults, and four nov­els for adults: Exci­sion (2019), The Silence of the Plants (nom­i­nat­ed for the Sapir Prize in 2015), Sour Love (win­ner of the Tch­er­ni­chovsky Award), and Blue Woolen Wire. Her work has appeared in antholo­gies in Hebrew and Span­ish. Many of her children’s sto­ries have been pub­lished in var­i­ous chil­dren’s mag­a­zines and read on the Israeli radio pro­gram One More Sto­ry and That’s All, includ­ing ​“Hana‑a Half of Banana,” ​‘Sto­ries of Idioms,” ​“The Cuck­oo’s Bak­ery,” ​“The Farmer and His Faith­ful Horse,” ​“Crown of Glass,” ​“A Tree of Coins,” ​“The Princess and the Onion’s Clothes,” and many more. She has won the ACUM Award twice.