Riva Hocherman is currently senior editor at Metropolitan Books in New York. After graduating from Jerusalem's Hebrew University, she worked in both book and magazine publishing in Israel, including at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature. At Metropolitan Books she continues to work with many Israeli writers, among them Amira Hass, Tom Segev, Amos Elon, Ronit Matalon, Yael Hedaya, and Yitzhak Laor.