Adina Kay is an MFA candidate in nonfiction writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She was raised on Long Island but spent much of her childhood and young adult years living in Israel. She is working on a memoir about a girl enmeshed in life, love and landscape in New York and Jerusalem. She lives in New York City.

In answer to the question, "There are thousands of reasons not to write, what is one reason that keeps you moving forward as a writer?" the inimitable writer Joan Didion put it best; she said, "I don’t know what I think until I write it down."

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