Dena Bach has an MA/MFA in Children’s Literature and Writing for Children from Simmons University and has studied illustration at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has worked as a bookseller, bookkeeper, aspiring book writer, fine artist, calligrapher, illustrator, and a teacher of children from ages two to fourteen. She currently keeps busy working at a children’s bookstore, learning sofrut, and as a volunteer reviewer and illustration editor for the Sydney Taylor Shmooze, a Jewish children’s book blog.