FICTION
An Israeli novelist and essayist living in Berlin, I write about queerness, gender, sexuality, and the complex relations between Israeli Jews and Palestinians. In Moving on from Bliss, my 2016 short story collection, characters long for a home they’re incapable of creating. My 2022 novel, The Town Below, shatters restrictive constructs of gender, sexuality, race, national identity, and other forms of “otherness.”
In my current work I aspire to explore models of non-biological kinship which undermine both national and heteronormative narratives. My fiction employs insight into my own lived experiences to shed light on essential social and geopolitical issues at the juncture of queerness, national belonging, and kinship
The Town Below
2022
In this debut full-length novel, the lives of Eliad, Ibrahim, and Miriam are inexorably drawn together by two forceful but opposing powers - passion and societal limitations. Across the years, a strong bond emerges between the three protagonists of this daring novel - a friendship and mutual appreciation that surpasses the limiting influences of gender, religion, and society. The novel shatters restrictive constructs of gender, sexuality, race, national identity, and other forms of “otherness.”
“An original and daring novel, its exceptionality evoking emotion and thought”
Omri Herzog, Haaretz
Read the English translation of the first three chapters here
The Town Below - 2022
Novel
Moving on from Grace
Washington Square Review, Issue 44, Spring '20
The English translation of a story from my 2016 short story collection. This story follows a young woman estranged from her emotionally distant, austere mother. When she falls in love with Oshri, a neighbor, she finds not only romantic connection but also a new sense of home - and in Oshri’s warm, generous mother, the maternal care she never received. But the narrative unfolds in the shadow of loss: Oshri has died in a car accident, and the story becomes an elegy for a love abruptly taken. Through fragments of memory and quiet reflection, the narrator grapples with grief, longing, and the fragile forms of family we create for ourselves.
Moving on from Grace - 2020
The Kinneret in Emrys Journal Vol. 37
2017
Winner of the Sue Lile Inman fiction prize.
In this poignant story from the 2016 short story collection, a divorced mother embarks on a summer trip to the Sea of Galilee with her young twin children. What begins as a seemingly ordinary family outing becomes a moment of irreversible change—one that reshapes their lives.
The Kinneret - 2017
Poems
A Naked Queen: An Anthology of Israeli Social Protest Poetry.
Hakkibutz Hameohad
2013
Poems
A Naked Queen: An Anthology of Israeli Social Protest Poetry.
2013
Moving on from Bliss - מאושרי והלאה
2016
Sue Lile Inman Fiction Prize winner
In Moving on from Bliss, my 2016 short story collection, characters long for a home they’re incapable of creating. In six short stories and one novella, I explore women on the margins of Israeli society. The book 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. Three of the stories in the collection have been translated and published in English in various magazines:
The Kinneret – Emrys Journal Vo. 37, 2020
“Vigorously written, with a delicate and precise hand and a rare combination of wit and compassion” Amos Oz
Moving on from Bliss - 2016
Sue Lile Inman Fiction Prize winner
Flash Flood
2022
Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine
The English translation of a story from my 2016 short story collection. This poignant tale centers on a family's final trip to Eilat, in southern Israel, before the mother’s impending death from illness. At its heart is Lily, the mother, quietly contemplating suicide as she confronts the limits of her suffering and autonomy. Her husband, burdened by helplessness, tries to preserve a sense of normalcy and protect their daughters from the truth. Meanwhile, the daughters — now grown — look back on this sun-drenched, sorrow-tinged vacation, trying to piece together what they knew then and what they understand now.
Flash Flood - 2022
שיחה ושינוי - מאזניים
שיחה ושינוי - מאזניים
