Yael Segalovitz received a B.A. in Literature and Psychology and M.A. in Comparative Literature from Tel Aviv University. She is the translator of Clarice Lisepctor’s A Via Crucis do Corpo into Hebrew (Ha-kibutz Ha-me’uchad Press, 2016) and her poetry translations into English appeared in Mantis (2016), Two-Lines(2015) and T-joLT (2014. At Berkeley, Yael has taught courses in Comparative Literature and The Center for Jewish Studies on topics such as ADHD and Boredom, Intertextuality, Modern Iterations of the Hebrew Bible, Performativity and the question of Arbitrariness and Mistakes.
Shimon Adaf was born in Sderot, Israel, in 1972 to parents of Moroccan origin. He has published three collections of poetry and six novels. His third collection of poetry, Aviva-No, won the Yehuda Amichai prize in 2010, and his novel Mox Nox won the Sapir Prize for Literature in 2013. He resides in Tel Aviv and teaches creative writing and literature at Ben Gurion University.