Who am I?I am Dr. Aya Biran Nirko.I’m an MD, biologist with a master’s degree in clinical psychological approaches for treating behavioral and substance use disorders.I got to Italy from Israel about 20 years ago to study medicine at the University of Pavia (a small city southern to Milan), and here I met my husband Or and we have two wonderful girls.I am and was so many other things. Multidisciplinary creator, group leader in treks al over Israel, kids’ animator in birthday parties. Awful cook and housewife, but excellent with ship model construction. Passionate reader of science fiction and fantasy, as well as historical novels.I’m an artist in my bones and soul, who always looks for a way to pour my creativity into fields which seem completely unrelated. I am a voice that feels the internal need to be heard. To be expressed in various forms and shapes.When I graduated and got my qualifications as an MD I had all the intentions to continue with a specialization in psychiatry. But I decided to wait a year, I was pregnant and didn’t want to stress myself, so in the meanwhile I started to work as a general physician. Faith, if I can call it like that, gave me as a gift my first working experience the role of a physician of correctional institutes. The prison’s doc. And for 8 years I was working in that peculiar environment. At the beginning as a family and emergency physician and later as an addiction physician for male and female inmates. I started to write my experiences as a Israeli female physician in Italian prisons because I noticed how much the people I had met, were curious, astonished because of my choice and type of work. How prison is? Is it like really like on tv? Aren’t you afraid? And one night on December 2020 I started to write. And kept writing until March 2021, when my stories became too dark, too hopeless. Lust a few months later, on 23rd May 2021, the biggest tragedy of my family happened: a cable car accident in north Italy, the first in 20 years, on the mountain of Mottarone. 15 people were on that cable car when it just crushed down, killing 14 of the 15 passengers, among them my so beloved brother Amit (30 years old), my wonderful sister-in-law Tal, and my 2-year-old nephew Tomi. The long and complex story that followed was actually out there online worldwide, without any way i could have control it. Neither did I have any control on what followed in the months to come.But I am still here, kicking and breathing, taking care of 3 children now. Because FROM THE ASHES I WILL RISE has become more than just a sentence for me.Read more about this authorRead less about this author