L.M. Rapp is the author of Of Flesh and Tears, Discordant Hearts and Dreadful Beauty. Since childhood, she’s been both troubled and fascinated by the animal side of human beings, and the small gap that sometimes separates our so-called civilized world from nature. Where does the animal end and the human begin? She explores this duality, as magnificent as it is monstrous, through her novels and short stories. It is perhaps because we are all, to varying degrees, chimeras. L.M. lives in Batsra, Israel, and devotes her time to writing.