Maya Tevet Dayan is an Israeli-Canadian poet and writer, one pf the prominent voices in Israel in poetry and feminist thought, and a worldwide speaker. She is the recipient of the Israeli Prime Minister award for literature for 2018, and an honorable mention from the Kugel Poetry Prize for 2016.
Poems from her three critically acclaimed poetry collections have been translated into English, Spanish, Italian, German, French and Chinese, and have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, World Literature Today, Literary Review of Canada, Granta, Asymptote, The New Quarterly, Rattle, and others. Her poem “Foreign-ness” was a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize for 2019, and her poem “Cotton” won the 2021 Rhino translation prize.
She is also the translator into Hebrew of the American poet Dorianne Laux.

 

Tevet Dayan's book "Feminism, as I Taught it to My Daughters" (2023), was a bestselling short memoir in essays based on her highly popular feminist columns and essays published over the years in Haaretz magazine. She is a highly popular writer and thinker in Israel and among Israeli readers worldwide and a prominent voice in poetry, feminism, and current Israeli affairs. She regularly appears on TV shows, publishes opinion columns in newspapers and on social media, her weekly podcast is sent to tens of thousands of subscribed listeners, and she holds readings and lectures in front of vast audiences in Israel and the United States.

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Tevet Dayan has taught in numerous institutions, including a visiting poet position at the MFA program at San Diego State University. She holds a PhD in Indian Philosophy and Literature, and was a lecturer for 15 years at Tel Aviv University, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at Haifa University.

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Maya Tevet Dayan's website

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Links to Maya Tevet Dayan's Essays:

•  On the Driver and on Being Together | Six Minutes Every Friday

•  Being Israeli in California After the Hamas' Attack: Now I Know What
   "Progressive Trolls" are Like

•  Speaking Hebrew in Secret: Being an Israeli Abroad.