Edna Shochat was born in Mandatory Palestine which, in 1948 became Israel. Her native language is Hebrew. She studied art and graphic design and worked in book publishing before coming to the U.S. with her family in 1971.
She worked in advertising and daily newspapers and lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lexington, Kentucky, Maplewood, New Jersey and Palo Alto, California before moving to Boise, Idaho, in 2018.
She began to write poetry at age 70 while undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. What started as a vehicle to carry her on the road to recovery continues to inspire her on the path we all share – the passage of time and the journey of aging.
Decent Exposure, her first book of poetry, was published by Poetica Mea in 2024.