• Nurit Zarchi is the the author of nearly 100 books and was  twice awarded the Israeli Prime Minister's Literary Prize for her poetry. Zarchi served as the inaugural Poet- in- Residence of the new Creative Writing   Program at Hebrew University. She also teaches literature at Levinsky Teachers College, and writing workshops at Ben Gurion University and the Tel Aviv city library.
     
  • Lisa Katz received a Ph.D. (on the poetry of Sylvia Plath) from the English Department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she has lived since 1983. Co-editor of the Israeli pages of the Rotterdam-based Poetry International Web, she teaches literary translation at both Hebrew and Ben Gurion universities, and a poetry workshop at Tel Aviv University.. Her translations of Israeli literature have appeared in The New Yorker, World Literature Today, American Poetry Review, and other magazines.

 

 

 

 

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