Tamar Raphael was born in 1989 in Petah Tikva, lived in Tel Aviv until 2022, and currently resides in Berlin. In 2021, she published the poetry collection Receding Songs (Hava La’Or) and won the Minister of Culture Prize for emerging poets. In 2024, she published her debut novel, There Were Two With Nothing to Do (Pardes), which received critical acclaim and an honorable mention in the debut books category of the Brenner Prize. In addition, her poems and short stories have been published across various platforms (“Hava Lehaba”, “Maayan”, “Ho!”, “Granta”, “Moznaim”). She was the literature critic for Time Out magazine from 2015–2016 and translated the novella Benigna Machiavelli by Charlotte Perkins Gilman into Hebrew (Locus).