About Erica

Erica Lyons is Hong Kong-based children’s book author focusing on picture books through young adult novels with a preference for historical fiction. She is an active member of the Hong Kong’s Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She is the chair of the Hong Kong Jewish Historical Society, the Hong Kong Delegate to World Jewish Congress, and the founder and director of PJ Library Hong Kong.

She has always been a natural storyteller. She founded Asian Jewish Life – a journal of spirit, society and culture celebrating the diversity of the Jewish experience in Asia in 2009. She also freelanced for a number of international publications often focusing on Judaism and Asia. She has also contributed work to a number of books including: Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women, a World Poetry Anthology and, most recently, Growing up Jewish in India: Synagogues, Customs, and Communities from the Bene Israel to the Art of Siona Benjamin.

In addition to writing, she has been a speaker for a number of forums that included: TEDx Victoria Harbour (Hong Kong), the SEFER International Conference for Judaic Studies (Moscow), Limmud China (Shanghai), and the 16th World Jewish Congress Plenary.

She was a scholar with Genesis Philanthropy’s Our Common Destiny forum. Additionally, she was a participant in the Shusterman Foundation’s ROI Summit for Jewish Innovators, a fellow with the Anti-Defamation League’s Steinberg Leadership Institute, and a participant in the Tikvah Advanced Summer Institute.

She is the mother of five children.

 

Erica Lyons