Ayelet Gun­dar-Goshen is the win­ner of the 2017 JQ-Wingate Prize for Wak­ing Lions. She was born in Israel in 1982 and holds an MA in clin­i­cal psy­chol­o­gy from Tel Aviv Uni­ver­si­ty. She has worked for the Israeli civ­il rights move­ment and is an award-win­ning screen­writer. She won Israel’s pres­ti­gious Sapir Prize for best debut. Wak­ing Lions, her first nov­el pub­lished in the U.S., has been trans­lat­ed into nine languages.