Natalie Hess

Born in Poland, Natalie Hess Is a Holocaust survivor who has lived and worked in Sweden, the United States, and Israel. She spent many years as a high school teacher in both the U.S. and Israel. She has also worked as an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher and teacher-educator in England, Mexico, and Taiwan. She is the author and co-author of several textbooks and teacher resource books, including Finding Family (University of Michigan Press, 2011), Teaching Large Multi-level Classes (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and Stories With a Twist (Alta Book Center Publishers, 1999).

Hess earned a Master of Arts Degree in Education from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Arizona, and she has worked on the faculties of Arizona University in Tucson, as well as Northern Arizona University in Yuma, Arizona where she earned a distinguished teaching award.

She was married to John Hess for 54 happy years and is a proud mom of three splendid daughters and grandma of six outstanding grandchildren. At present, she is a volunteer docent at the Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. She reads and writes both prose and poetry, loves talking with friends, and taking long walks in her adopted city.