Ruth Zelig

Ruth Zelig migrated three times and lived in four countries before the age of twenty, changing languages (at least five), cultures, and school systems in each place. She got a master’s degree in Linguistics at the University of Rochester, NY, and a bachelor’s in Linguistics and French at Lehman College, CUNY. She was a systems engineer at IBM for years, consulting with clients as programmer and analyst; today, she is a writer, photographer, and gardener who lives in Manhattan with her husband of forty-three years.