My Journey as a Writer

I was 10 years old when I realized what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. Then I had to figure out how to do it.

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When I was 10, my parents decided to write book under a pseudonym — my first name and an ancestral surname. When I saw the name Yael on their business cards above the word “writer,” I knew with every fiber of my being that I…