Emuna Elon is an internationally bestselling, critically acclaimed novelist, journalist, teacher, and women's activist. Born in Jerusalem to a family of prominent rabbis and scholars, she was raised in Jerusalem and New York and currently lives in Jerusalem. She teaches Judaism and Hasidism and has published 4 novels, 8 short stories and 7 children's books. Her first novel translated into English, If You Awaken Love, was a National Jewish Book Award finalist.
House On Endless Waters was translated from its original Hebrew by the late Anthony Berris (1934-2018) and Linda Yechiel, a Canadian-born editor and translator based in Israel.