News Agency, she moved to the nonprofit sector as a director at the Harold Grinspoon Foundation.
Vromen launched and directed two reading readiness programs in Israel, one in Hebrew (Sifriyat Pijama) and one in Arabic (Maktabat al-Fanoos). During her tenure, the two programs gifted twenty million books to young children and their families and were named US Library of Congress honorees for best practices in promoting literacy.
Vromen’s stories have been performed on NPR’s Selected Shorts program and appeared in magazines such as American Way, the Adirondack Review, Tikkun, and Reform Judaism. She has an MA in literature from Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a BA in media and anthropology from Hampshire College in Massachusetts.
Vromen and her husband divide their time between Israel and Massachusetts.
She applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Hill of Secrets, and reported the following:
The Page 69 Test works only partially for my book. On page 69, the main character, Christine, meets a native American potter, Maria Martinez. So, the page does mark the beginning of Christine's change of heart about being dragged to live at a desolate army base in Los Alamos, New Mexico, because her husband has been assigned to work on a secret project there during WW2. But her relationship with Martinez is only a small part of the transition she undergoes in the course of the book.Visit Galina Vromen's website.
Page 69 does introduce the reader to Maria Martinez, a real figure whose signature black pottery, which I describe extensively, is widely acclaimed to this day. Martinez did have contact with the residents of Los Alamos and much of her backstory in the book is historically based.
--Marshal Zeringue