Anat Levin
Anat Levin was born in Israel to a mother of Russian descent from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and a father from Kornitz, Belarus. Her debut book of poems, Slowly Revolving Anna (Achuzat Bayit, 2008), won the Ministry of Culture Award for Poetry. Her second collection of poetry, Mouth to Mouth (Keshev, 2013), won the 2012 ACUM prize from the Israeli Society for Authors and Musicians, The Rabinovich Tel Aviv Fund for Translation, and has been translated into English and German. Levin's first novel, The Archivist (Afik Books, 2015), was awarded the Ministry of Culture Award for Fiction in 2014 and an ACUM Aharon Ashman Award for Anonymously Submitted Fiction. She has received support from the Vermont Studio Center and has also been awarded the 2006 Poetry in the Streets Prize from the city of Tel Aviv. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Russian, and Romanian. A graduate of the film and television department at Hunter College in New York, Levin worked for many years as a commercial writer for a law firm in Israel. She resides in Giv'atayim, Israel, with her husband, the poet Adi Assis.
Yael Massen
Yael Massen is an MFA Candidate in Poetry and Associate Instructor of Composition and Creative Writing at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her work can be found within the pages and URLs of Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Third Coast, and The Journal. A recipient of the 2016 Vera Meyer Strube Academy of American Poets Award, she has also received support from The Yiddish Book Center, The National Society of Arts and Letters (Bloomington), Middlebury Summer Language School, and The Borns Jewish Studies Program. Yael has served as Nonfiction Editor and Associate Poetry Editor of Indiana Review. She volunteers as an On-Scene Advocate and a Legal Advocate at Middle Way House, providing support services to people who experience domestic and sexual violence in South-Central Indiana.
