Elana Zaiman is the first woman rabbi from a family spanning six generations of rabbis. She began her rabbinic career at Manhattan's Park Avenue Synagogue and currently serves as a chaplain in Seattle's elder community. Elana travels throughout the US and Canada as a scholar-in-residence, speaker, and workshop facilitator. She has received rave reviews for her keynotes and workshops in synagogues, churches, interfaith-gatherings, social service agencies, geriatric residencies, law firms, women's organizations, private salons, and elder-law and financial and estate-planning conferences. Elana is a writer. Her essays, nonfictions, and fictions have been published in: The Gettysburg Review, The Sun, Post Road, The Beloit Fiction Journal, The Dalhousie Review, Hotel Amerika, Clackamas Literary Review, American Letters & Commentary, and other venues. In addition, she is the Ethics and Spirituality columnist for the magazine Liv Fun. Elana lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and son.