I was born in Philadelphia in the United States, but moved more than 20 times throughout my life. Most of my childhood was spent on a small Kibbutz in Israel's Galilee region, where I spent afternoons milking cows, feeding ants, caring for horses, and relishing the carelessness and freedom of youth. I attended the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied physics, and later studied astronomy at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. Otherwise, I am a poet. I also like to play English football on a regular basis.