Noa Sil­ver was born in Jerusalem and raised between Scot­land and Maine. After receiv­ing her BA in Eng­lish from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty, Noa taught Eng­lish in the Mar­shall Islands. She lat­er com­plet­ed her MFA in cre­ative writ­ing from San Fran­cis­co State Uni­ver­si­ty and then worked as an oral his­to­ry edi­tor. Noa and her hus­band, Jack, have two daugh­ters, Alma and Leila.