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Esti Skloot is an adjunct professor of Hebrew at the University of San Francisco. She was born in England to Jewish refugees who escaped Nazi Germany, and grew up in Israel where she received her teaching credentials from the Hebrew Teachers’ Seminary in Jerusalem. After serving in the IDF as a singer in an army entertainment troupe, she married an American and immigrated to New York and later California, where she received her BA in music at Sonoma State University and her MFA in creative writing at the University of San Francisco. Skloot loves nature, music—she is now learning to play the flute—and books. She lives in Mill Valley, California with Elan, her Israeli husband, and their pit bull, Laila. She has three children and four grandchildren, all of whom live in the Bay Area.