Leah Lax (MFA Cre­ative Writ­ing) is an author and libret­tist. Her first book was the award-win­ning Uncov­ered. Not From Here fol­lows her jour­ney back into soci­ety through lis­ten­ing to new immi­grants tell their sto­ries. In the process, she also uncov­ers the sto­ries of her Jew­ish grand­par­ents, and begins to under­stand who she is now as a Jew and an American.