Deborah Folka

I’m Deborah Folka, the author of Zoey’s Books.

My granddaughter, also named Zoey, calls me ‘Safta’, the Hebrew word for grandmother. During the boring, no-school days of the recent pandemic, Zoey and I were on FaceTime almost every day. We would get the same book, usually from the library, and take turns reading a page at a time. It was fun and we enjoyed a lot of great stories like Winnie-the-Pooh and the Hundred-Acre Wood and Charlotte’s Web. Then Zoey asked me to write stories about a girl named ‘Zoey’.

In Zoey’s Closet is the first children’s book I’ve written. But I’ve been writing stories since I was a child myself and all my adult life, I’ve made my living as a writer and storyteller.