Inquisitive and often on the road and a traveller, Rachel Hausfater lived in Germany, the United States, and Israel plying various trades. Today, in addition to writing, Rachel Hausfater is an English teacher at a school in Bobigny. A translator and author for Thierry Magnier publishing, she wrote a novel in 2009, Un soir j’ai divorcé de mes parents (The Night I Divorced My Parents).