No Vacancy

TZIPORAH (TZIPPY) COHEN was born and raised in New York and spent eighteen years in Boston before landing in Toronto, Ontario, where she now lives with her family. Many years after graduating from Harvard Medical School, she received an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She now splits her time between writing and working as an oncology/palliative care psychiatrist. Tzippy's debut middle-grade novel No Vacancy won the Jean Little First-Novel Award and was a Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor Book and a National Jewish Book Award finalist. Her picture book Afikomen, illustrated by Yaara Eshet, was a Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor Book and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year.