Jeannette Grunhaus de Gelman is a Venezuelan professor, researcher, and writer. She was born in Szczecin. Poland in 1946, to Polish Holocaust survivors who came from Wlodawa. Her family emigrated to Venezuela, settling in Maracaibo. Gelman received her undergraduate degree in French from Wellesley College. In 1970, she went on to receive an MA in Spanish Literature from New York University via their extension program in Madrid and in 1976 was awarded her MA in the teaching of French from the Université de Paris III. She was a professor of French Language and Literature at the Universidad del Zulia in Maracaibo from 1971 to 1996.
Travelling was one of her passions but finally in 2013 she moved to Miami, Florida with a purpose in mind. As Seco
