Chanan Tigay

Chanan Tigay is an award-winning writer and journalist who has covered the Middle East, 9/11, and the United Nations for numerous magazines, newspapers, and wires. Author of The Lost Book of Moses: the Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible (Ecco/HarperCollins), Tigay recently was featured talent in the two-hour History Channel special “The God Code.” Born in Jerusalem, Tigay holds degrees from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, was an Investigative Reporting Fellow at U.C. Berkeley and is a professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. He is currently spending the year at Harvard University as a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Education

• MFA Columbia University in the City of New York (2002 — 2004)
• BA, cum laude University of Pennsylvania (1994 — 1998)

Companies

• Nonfiction Fellow Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2019)
• Associate Professor, Creative Writing San Francisco State University (2018)
• Assistant Professor, Creative Writing San Francisco State University (2012)
• Journalist Freelance (2006 — 2012)
• Investigative Reporting Fellow U.C. Berkeley (2011 — 2012)
• Lecturer, Creative Writing Stanford University (2009 — 2012)
• Writing Instructor Stanford University, Graduate School of Business (2008 — 2009)
• Staff Writer JTA wire service (2004 — 2006)
• Senior Writer The Jerusalem Report (2002 — 2004)