About Flaw and Favor
The Ilanot Review
Fall-Winter 2025
Flaw and Favor
Managing Editor
Marcela Sulak
Guest Editors for Poetry
Flower Conroy
Alex M. Frankel
Guest Editor for Fiction
Mandira Pattnaik
Guest Editor for Creative Nonfiction
Noam Dorr
Poetry Editor
Jane Medved
Creative Nonfiction Editor
Marcela Sulak
Fiction Editors
Nadia Jacobson
Taylor Johnston-Levy
Karen Marron
Production Editor
Karen Marron
Event Coordinator
Yoni Hammer-Kossoy
Founding Editor
Janice Weizman
The Ilanot Review is an international journal publishing a variety of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and genres in between. We especially love translations and hybrid work. For each issue, guest editors join permanent volunteer staff. We strive to create conversations here that could occur nowhere else.
The Ilanot Review Staff
LGBTQIA+ artist, NEA and MacDowell Fellow, and former Key West Poet Laureate, Flower Conroy’s books include Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder, A Sentimental Hairpin, Greenest Grass, Zoodikers: A Bestiary, as well as And Scuttle My Balloon, co-authored with Donna Spruijt-Metz. Conroy’s currently working on a series of Ephemeral Altars that celebrate poetry (which can be found on her social media sites).
Noam Dorr is the author of Love Drones (Sarabande Books). His work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Passages North, Seneca Review, Poetry Magazine and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor at Western Washington University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in creative writing and literature with a focus on hybridity, visual and performance art, the essay form, global literature, and translation.
Alex M. Frankel left Spain in the 1990s to settle in Southern California and hosts the Second Sunday Poetry Series. His full-length collection, Birth Mother Mercy, came out from Lummox Press in 2013. For ten years he wrote reviews for The Antioch Review until it went on indefinite hiatus.
Nadia Jacobson was born in London and currently lives in Jerusalem. She holds an MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Bar-Ilan University, an MA in Philosophy from University College London, and a BA in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy from Cambridge University. Her fiction has appeared in The Miramichi Review, The Waking, Meniscus, Annalemma, The Binnacle, Every Day Fiction and others. She is currently working on two interweaving novels.
Taylor Johnston-Levy holds a postdoctoral fellowship in foreign literatures at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and teaches US literature and creative writing at Bar-Ilan University. Her fiction and literary critical work appear in Ninth Letter, Twentieth-Century Literature, Critique, Arizona Quarterly, and The Raymond Carver Review. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature and MA in Creative Writing from UC Berkeley.
Karen Marron is the author of the fiction chapbook BASS 1998, published in 2020 by Gold Line Press. Her work has also appeared in The Bellingham Review, Entropy, and Unbroken Journal, among others. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Bar-Ilan University and currently lives in Queens. Find her at karenmarron.com.
Jane Medved is the author of Wayfarers (2024), and Deep Calls To Deep (winner of the Many Voices Project). Her translation of Wherever We Float (by Maya Tevet Dayan) won the Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize from Saturnalia Books. Recent work appears in Bending Genres, ONE ART, Ruminate, The North American Review and The Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology. Her translations appear in Hala, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Copper Nickel. Find her at janemedved.net.
Mandira Pattnaik‘s work has appeared in print and online, including in The McNeese Review, Penn Review, Quarterly West, Passages North, DASH, Miracle Monocle, Timber, Contrary (also included in Wigleaf Top 50 in 2023), Ilanot Review (also included in Best Small Fictions in 2021), and Prime Number Magazine. More at mandirapattnaik.com
Marcela Sulak is the author of five poetry collections, most recently, The Fault (2024) and the National Jewish Book Award Finalist, City of Sky Papers (2021). Her five translated collections of poetry from the Czech, French, and Hebrew have been recognized by the NEA and PEN. She has co-edited the 2015 Rose Metal Press title, Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres. https://marcela-sulak.weebly.com
Yoni Hammer-Kossoy is a poet, translator, and educator whose first poetry collection, “The Book of Noah”, was published by Grayson Books in April 2023. His translations include “Ana Samar — I am Samar” (2023) and “Forbidden to Write About Happiness” (2024) by Zmira Poran Zion.
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