Anita Diamant has written 13 books, including the international bestseller, The Red Tent. Her other novels include Good Harbor, The Last Days of Dogtown and the just-published Day after Night, which tells the story of four young Jewish women Holocaust survivors who make their way to the land of Israel where they confront an uncertain future haunted by the past. Publisher’s Weekly calls the book “compulsively readable.”

Anita is an award-winning journalist, and the author of six non-fiction guides to contemporary Jewish life, beginning with The New Jewish Wedding, and a collection of personal essays. Pitching My Tent: On Marriage, Motherhood, Friendship and Other Leaps of Faith. She is also the founder and president of Mayyim Hayyim, Living Waters Community Mikveh and the Paula J. Brody Family Education Center, in Newton, Massachusetts. www.mayyimhayyim.org