Yaara Shehori Follow

Yaara Shehori has been an editor of Hebrew literature at Keter Publishing House since 2013. In 2014, she was awarded the Prime Minister Levi Eshkol Creative Writing Prize for Writers and Poets and the Minister of Culture’s Prize for Upcoming Writers. She holds a PhD in Hebrew literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship and a fellowship from the University of Iowa International Writing Program. In 2017, Aquarium received the Bernstein Prize for the best original Hebrew-language novel.

Todd Hasak-Lowy is an American writer, translator, and professor of creative writing and literature at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. He is the author of The Task of This Translator, a short-story collection; Captives, a novel; a narrative memoir for young adults, Somewhere There Is Still a Sun, cowritten with the Holocaust survivor Michael Gruenbaum; and three books for younger readers. Hasak-Lowy lives in Evanston, Illinois, with his wife and two daughters.