Rona Arato is an award-winning author and a teacher. She was born in New York and grew up in Los Angeles, where she attended UCLA and earned a BA in Education. She lives in Toronto and is a dual American and Canadian citizen. Rona began her writing career while her children were growing up. From 1994–1998, she interviewed Holocaust survivors for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoa Visual History Foundation, an experience that helped her understand her husband’s background as a Holocaust survivor. Rona has since turned her attention to writing books for children, with a focus on human rights.