Grace Feuerverger was born and raised in her beloved city of Montréal surrounded by a multitude of languages and cultures. She is Professor Emerita of education and ethnography at the University of Toronto.

   Grace was educated at McGill University, the Università per Stranieri in Perugia, Italy, the University of California at Berkeley, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Toronto. She had also served as member on the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.

   Her previous award-winning books are Oasis of Dreams (about a cooperative Jewish-Palestinian village in Israel) and Teaching, Learning and Other Miracles (about education as a sacred life journey). Her new book is Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors.