Jan­ice Weiz­man was born in Toron­to, and moved to Israel at the age of nine­teen. She is a grad­u­ate of the Cre­ative Writ­ing pro­gram at Bar-Ilan Uni­ver­si­ty, where she found­ed and serves as man­ag­ing edi­tor of The Ilan­ot Review, an online lit­er­ary jour­nal. Janice’s fic­tion has appeared in var­i­ous jour­nals includ­ing Lilith, Jew­ish Fic­tion, and Scrib­blers on the Roof. She lives in Rehovot with her hus­band and three chil­dren. The Way­ward Moon is her first novel.