Dara Barnat

Dara Barnat teaches poetry and creative writing in the Department of English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her work appears in diode, Poet Lore, Crab Orchard Review, The Collagist, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Her translations from Hebrew appear or are forthcoming in Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, International Poetry Review, and Lilith. Dara’s chapbook, Headwind Migration, was released by Pudding House Publications in 2009. In the same year, she received a poetry scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Dara’s doctoral dissertation was titled Walt Whitman and Jewish American Poetry. (photo credit: Roi Tartakovsky)