Yael GLOBERMAN

Yael GLOBERMAN is the author of the novel Menanea et ha-ets [‘Shaking the Tree’] (1996), and two poetry collections. Her debut poetry volume, [‘Alibi’], received the ACUM Award for Poetry (2000) and the 2002 PAIS Award; the collection [‘Same River Twice’] came out in 2007, with excerpts appearing in VQR (Summer 2008). She is the editor and translator of A Soul’s History: Selected Poems by Stephen Spender (2007); her translations of Ann Sexton are forthcoming in 2009, and a W.H. Auden volume is due in 2010. Globerman has co-written film scripts and a play; she teaches creative writing at Oranim College, is on the board of the Helicon Society for the Advancement of Poetry, and is an editor of the society’s poetry magazine. She attends courtesy of the United States-Israel Education Foundation (USIEF) and the Fulbright Commision for Israel.