JACOB ISRAEL is a National book award winning author, as well as an Emmy, Telly, and N.R.B. award winning television writer and producer. He has been blessed with a steady creative career since graduating university. His compelling writing style brings the reader along a fantastic journey that may stay with them for many years to come. However, this is not who he is. Mr. Israel is above all a man of great faith. He is a father to three amazing children and a husband to a wife he adores. Suffering from childhood with a severe, and debilitating, case of Crohns disease, he spent a majority of his life searching for it's meaning. After years of studying various faiths he found a great truth that set him free. Today he understands that everything he endured from illness, abuse and abandonment, to losing everything, all played its part in creating who he would be. His novel, "The Calling A Voice In the Dead Woods" is the culmination of his experiences, hardships, and victories, wrapped in a clever allegory that will inspire the world.

"Best Religious Fiction" 2009 National Indie Excellence Awards.