Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Rona’s creative force boomed when she arrived in New York City. Here she booked leads and featured roles in Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, studied kung fu and its various sword forms, discovered her knack for songwriting and formed a rock band, received a Fine Arts degree from SVA, and later an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, where she also studied literary translation. She is currently at work on her first novel and a chapbook of mistranslations