Hisham Naffa is an Arabic writer, journalist, and translator. He is a writer and senior editor at Al-Ittihad, the Arabic daily published in Haifa, and a translator at Tohu Magazine. Among others, he edits the culture and literature pages. He writes in Palestinian and Israeli newspapers. In 2012 he published his debut novel Gentle Collapses. His […]
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Sarit Elkon was born in a small, unmarked village in Moldova in 1973. In 1980 at the age of 7, she immigrated to Israel. She holds a B.A. and M.A. degrees in social work and criminology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 2013 she completed my Ph.D. research in Criminology at the Hebrew University […]
Ilana Hammerman was born in Haifa in 1944. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics and literary theory from Bielefeld University, Germany. Hammerman has taught literature, translation, and editing at several academic institutions. From 1985 to 2012 she was editor-in-chief at Am Oved Publishing House. Hammerman has published documentary books, literary studies, and memoirs, as well as […]
Deakla Keydar Is an Israeli author, screenwriter and a creative writing lecturer. She published seven award-winning fiction books for adults, teenagers and children, and several of her titles were translated into German, Greek, and Chinese. Her short stories were featured in Israeli and international anthologies and magazines. Keydar is also a TV and film screenwriter […]
Leah Goldberg was born on May 29, 1911 in the city of Königsberg, Prussia. She spent her childhood years in Kovno, Lithuania. During World War I, her family was exiled to Russia, returning afterwards to Lithuania. She received a Ph.D in semitic languages from Bonn University, and immigrated to pre-state Israel in 1935. Goldberg was […]
Linor Kats is 35 and lives in Ramat-Gan, Israel. She is a student in the Writing Department of Minshar; an Arts college in Tel Aviv. It’s her third year there and in writing, she has found something that she really feels passionate about. As she is also interested in film she hopes to one day […]
Tehila Hakimi (1982) is an Israeli poet, writer and mechanical engineer. Her poetry volume We’ll Work Tomorrow received the 2015 Bernstein Prize for Literature, and, alongside her graphic novel In the Water (2016) and her collection Company (2018), won the Yahushua Rabinowitz Foundation Prize for Literature. Hakimi received the 2018 Levi Eshkol Prize for Hebrew Writers, and the 2018 Fulbright International […]
Edna Shemesh is an Israeli writer. She was born in Romania in 1953 and immigrated to Israel with her parents in the early 1960s. The family lived in Kiryat Gat. Shemesh is a graduate of the Hebrew University in English Literature and Theater studies and also studied in the Department of Hebrew Literature. She is […]
Amir Atsmon won the 5th place in The Short Story Project’s “My Best Story” competition in 2018. He is an Israeli editor and translator living in Tel Aviv. He teaches and performs Improvisational theater and is training to be a Drama-therapist.
Shay Aspril is an Israeli writer. He was born in 1978 in Tel Aviv and grew up in Hod Hasharon. He studied law at Tel Aviv University and at the same time began publishing short stories in literary journals. His first collection of short stories was published in 2012 and won the Ramat Gan Prize. […]
Zeev Smilansky is an Israeli scientist and writer. He was born and raised in Rehovot and studied mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and London. He develops high-tech and biotech technologies in Israel. Smilansky writes poetry and short stories and occasionally publishes articles in Haaretz newspaper. His poem “Cain” won the first prize in […]
Ofir Oz won second place in The Short Story Project’s competition “My Best Story”, 2018. His winning story “Criminal” was first published in Michigan Quarterly Review. Ofir is an emerging writer from Israel. His second novel, The First Name, has earned him the Promising Writers Award of the Israel Ministry of Culture. His work has […]
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