Rachel Tzvia Back is the author of four poetry collections, two poetry chapbooks and six collections of Hebrew poetry in translation. Her poems and verse translations have received awards and recognitions, including the Times Literary Supplement Award, PEN Translation Prize, Finalist for the National Poetry Award in Translation and Finalist for the Jewish Book Council Poetry Award. She is also the recipient of various fellowships, including the Brown Foundation Fellowship at the Dora Maar House (France). Her poetry has been lauded as “necessary, irreplaceable, urgent” (Chana Kronfeld), offering poems that “bristle with desperate hope” (Kazim Ali). Her essays and addresses are concerned particularly with articulating the political and social changes poetry can effect in the world. Back is a professor of literature at Oranim College. She lives in the Galilee, where her great great great grandfather settled in the 1830s. For more information and material, see https://www.racheltzviaback.com/home