Wherever We Float, That's Home

Author Biography

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 the Kugel Poetry Prize for 2016. 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. Her forthcoming book is a translation into Hebrew of the American poet Dorianne Laux. Jane Medved is the author of Wayfarers (winner of the Off The Grid Prize 2024) and Deep Calls To Deep (New Rivers Press 2017) Recent work has appeared in Bending Genres, Ruminate, The North American Review, and the anthologies: Ache: The Body’s Experience Of Religion (Flipped Mitten Press) and Contemporary Jewish Poetry (Laurel Review) Other awards include winner of the 2021 RHINO translation prize and the 2021 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize. She is the poetry editor of The Ilanot Review, and a visiting lecturer in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv.