Nesta Rovina was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. She received a degree from Rhodes University, in Grahamstown. During her eleven years in Israel, she spent eight years on Kibbutz Ein Dor and received a degree in occupational therapy in Jerusalem. Rovina has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 1980 and she completed her masters degree at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda. Her essays have been published locally and in England. She now works as an early intervention home health therapist."
