MAYA TEVET DAYAN is the author of a novel One Thousand Years To Wait (2011) and three books of poetry: Let There Be Evening. Let There Be Chaos (2015), Wherever We Float, That’s Home (2018) and Coping Mechanisms (2021). Tevet Dayan is the recipient of the Israeli Prime Minister award for literature for 2018 and an honorable mention from the Kugel Poetry Prize for 2016. English translations of her poems have appeared in World Literature Today, Rattle Magazine, Modern Poetry in Translation, Asymptote, The New Quarterly, and Literary Review of Canada. Her latest book, Feminism, as I Told it to My Daughters (2023) is a memoir in essays based on her columns published in Haaretz magazine. She is currently a MDSDII visiting poet, teaching creative writing and poetry for the MFA at San Diego State University. Her forthcoming book is a translation into Hebrew of the American poet Dorianne Laux. Wherever We Float, That’s Home by Maya Tevet Dayan, translated from Hebrew by Jane Medved, won the 2023 Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize and is forthcoming with Saturnalia Books. |