Mirah Magen

Mirah Magen was born in 1950 in Kfar Saba

Mira Magen was born in 1950 in Kfar Saba to a religious Jewish family. She attended the religious high school Moreshet in Kfar Saba.

She served in Nahal at Kibbutz Tirat Zvi, where she met her husband, Shayke Magen.

She worked as a teacher for about 2 years and then studied behavioral sciences at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. After moving to Jerusalem, she trained as a nurse at Hadassah and worked as a nurse. She later worked as a secretary at the Writers' House in the Old City.

She began writing short stories while working as a nurse, and her first book appeared in 1994. Her stories and novels often deal with religious life, motherhood and the lives of women. Her books have been translated into German, French and Italian.

She lives in Jerusalem and is a mother of 3.