Born in Lahore in 1939 when it was part of the British Raj to two Jewish refugee physicians fleeing Hitler's Europe, Hazel Selzer Kahan and her family spent the years between 1940 and 1946 in British internment camps in India. In 1947, Lahore became part of Pakistan and her cherished home. Hazel and her brother Michael were educated at Woodstock School in India and Bedales School in England after which she received her B.A. in Psychology from University College London and her Ph.D. in Psychology at the Australian National University. She lived in Australia and Israel before coming to the United States and pursuing a market research career in New York. She now lives among the woods and vineyards of the North Fork of Long Island where she is a writer, the creator of leafages art and the host of two monthly radio interview programs on WPKN radio.