Ayelet Gundar-Goshen is Visiting Faculty at SF State

JEWISH JOURNAL (LOS ANGELES) -- Shutan-Goshen, his wife and their two children are living temporarily in the Bay Area while Gundar-Goshen, author of the best-selling novel Waking Lions, is teaching a semester at San Francisco State University.

The couple met in the Israel Defense Forces, when Gundar-Goshen, a journalist, was assigned to write a story about his rescue unit. “I gave her one of my short stories and told her I’d like it to be published in her magazine,” Shutan-Goshen said. “She called the next day to tell me it was a lousy story and she would be happy to meet me to explain how bad it was. We met, and the rest is history.”