A native New Yorker, Raquelle Azran divides her time between Hanoi, Vietnam, where she specializes in Vietnamese contemporary fine art (www.artnet.com/razran.html [2]) and Tel Aviv, Israel, where she writes in her inner city aerie overlooking the Mediterranean.

Azran's short story 'By the Roadblock of Bethlehem' was awarded honorable mention and published in the International Herald Tribune literary supplement of the Middle East edition (2002).Her essay 'Giving Good Group' appears in The Writing Group Book (Chicago Review Press, 2003) and her short story 'Subtle Choices' appears in Aunties:Thirty Five Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother (Ballantine Books, 2004). 'Love' was included in the University of Maine's 2004 anthology of short shorts, and "He, She and They' in their 2005 anthology. 'Edith's Husband' - a feminist rewriting of the Biblical story of Lot's wife - appeared (February 2005) in the Culture supplement of the Haaretz/International Herald Tribune. 'Jumping to Conclusions' came out in Plum Biscuit (April 2005) and appears online.'Spirit of the Maccabees' was published online at Verbsap (January 2006) and in print in January 2009 in Tel Aviv Short Stories, an anthology. 'Hanoi and Counting,' an essay, was published in Vietnow and reprinted in Heritage (March 2006). 'Endings' was included in Jane Doe Buys A Challah, an anthology of Israeli short stories (December 2006). 'Adagio for Anna' appeared in Yuan Yang, a Hong Kong based literary journal, in 2007. 'Abnormal Times, Abnormal Israelis' was published in Poetica (July 2007). ‘City Girl’ appeared in the 2009 Tel Aviv Short Stories anthology.