Lea Zeltserman is a freelance writer and editor, and works in health care communications. She completed a Bachelors degree in English Literature at the University of Alberta, including a year at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. She worked as an editorial intern at The Walrus magazine, and has since written on food and farming, gender, graphic novels, Soviet war veterans, and local events for Canadian and American publications. She has studied, worked and travelled in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. Currently, she’s researching the Soviet-Jewish immigration of the 1970s and writes about it at http://leazeltserman.com.