Nadia Grosser Nagarajan was born in Czechoslovakia and educated in Israel and the United Sates where she received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. Nadia has lectured on Jewish culture as well as 19th century European literature. She has published two books: "Jewish Tales from Eastern Europe" (Jason Aronson, 1999) and "Pomegranate Seeds - Latin American Jewish Tales" (University of New Mexico Press, 2005). "Pomegranate Seeds" was honored in 2005 as a runner-up in the 'The National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Culture.' Nadia lives with her husband, and they have two sons and two grandkids.