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Dr. Hila Amit
Dr. Hila Amit is an award-winning author. She studied creative writing at the Tel -Aviv University and holds a PhD in the field of Gender Studies from SOAS, University of London.
Hila Amit’s fiction & creative non-fiction appeared in Lilith, Jalta, Emrys Journal, The Washington Square Review, The Sycamore Review, Granta and several prominent Israeli literary journals. Her story, 'The Kinneret', was selected for the Sue Lile Inman Fiction Prize. She received fellowships from The Vermont Studio Center, the McDowell Colony, Ragdale, the Bogliasco Foundation and the Thomas Mann House.​
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Her short stories collection, Moving On From Bliss (Tel-Aviv: Am Oved, 2016), was awarded the Israeli Ministry of Culture Prize for Debut Authors, and was selected as one of the 10 best literary works in Hebrew for the years 2010-2020.
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In 2025 this collection was pubished in German Translation (Münster: edition assamblage) under the name Mounir, Dana und das Mädchen. Her non-fiction book, A Queer Way Out – The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel (Albany: SUNY, 2018) was awarded the AMEWS (Association of Middle East Women's Studies) 2019 Book Award.
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In 2014 she established the International Hebrew School, through which she aims to advance Hebrew learning using a queer, feministic and pluralistic method.
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Her Hebrew learning book, Hebrew For All (עברית לכולן) was published in English and German in 2021.
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Her novel, The Lower City, was published in Hebrew in 2022 (Tel-Aviv: Am Oved).
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