S.W. Leicher grew up in the Bronx in a bi-cultural (Latina and Jewish) home.  She has BA in Russian history and literature from Harvard, and a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She moved to Manhattan after graduate school and raised her family on the Upper West Side, where she still lives with her husband and two black cats.  When not dreaming up fiction, she writes about social justice issues for foundations and nonprofit organizations.