Doreen Carvajal was born and raised in California. She studied journalism as an undergraduate at The University of California at Berkeley and San Jose State University. She worked as a journalist for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times and other publications for more than 25 years, covering a myriad of topics. Her first book, The Forgetting River, was about her search to recover her Catholic family’s hidden Sephardic Jewish roots in a mystical white pueblo on Spain’s southern frontier in Andalusia.
