Hazel Selzer Kahan

Biography

Hazel Selzer Kahan is an author, radio host, and mixed-media artist based on Long Island's North Fork in New York. She is the author of A House in Lahore: Growing Up Jewish in Pakistan (2022), a memoir about her childhood in Lahore and her family's experience as Jewish refugees from Nazi-era Europe. A trained psychologist with a Ph.D. from the Australian National University, Hazel spent much of her professional career in market research in New York. She now hosts two radio programs on WPKN, North Fork Works and Tidings, where she explores the lives, experiences, and ideas of her guests. She is also the creator of Leafages, an original art form combining real leaves, vines, calligraphy, and decorative pen-and-ink flourishes with philosophical and inspirational writing.