The Ilanot Review
Winter 2016: Constraint
Managing Editor
Janice Weizman
Fiction Editors
Katie Green
Nadia Jacobson
Janice Weizman
Nonfiction Editors
Mitch Ginsburg
Karen Marron
Poetry Editors
Jane Medved
Marcela Sulak
Guest Fiction Editor
Anthony Michael Morena
Guest Nonfiction Editor
Ilana Blumberg
Production Editor
Karen Marron
Webmaster
Yossi Nachemi
The Ilanot Review began in 2009 as the literary journal Ilanot, which was created as a forum where students and graduates of the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University could present their work.
In 2011, Ilanot was re-incarnated as The Ilanot Review, a biannual journal of creative writing which publishes a stellar selection of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and literary interviews.
The Ilanot Review is produced by a small but dedicated staff of volunteer editors. We publish two themed issues a year, which invite submissions from English-language poets and writers from anywhere in the world.
The Ilanot Review rated and reviewed in The Review Review
Interview with Managing Editor Janice Weizman in The Review Review
The Ilanot Review Staff
Ilana Blumberg is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Bar-Ilan University. She is author of Houses of Study: a Jewish Woman among Books (U Nebraska PRess, 2007) winner of the Sami Rohr Choice Prize 2008, and Victorian Sacrifice: Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels (Ohio State UP, 2014), as well as articles and essays. She lives in Jerusalem with her family.
Mitch Ginsburg, a graduate of the Shaindy Rudoff program at Bar-Ilan University, is the military and defense correspondent for The Times of Israel. He has translated several novels from Hebrew to English, including Second Person Singular by Sayed Kashua and The World of the End by Ofir Touche Gafla.
Katie Green graduated with honors from the Shaindy Rudoff Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University in 2003. She is festivals coordinator at the Maaleh film school and is also an independent editor and translator. Her stories and poetry appear in Jewishfiction. net, Cyclamens and Swords, and Yew Journal. Her story “The Color of Sand” was short-listed for the Moment Short Story Fiction prize. Her journalism has appeared in numerous Jewish publications and internet sites, and her films “Prague” and “16” have been shown on Israel’s Channel 2.
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, in addition to 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 Every Day Fiction, Annalemma Magazine, and a number of anthologies.
Karen Marron lives and writes in Tel Aviv. She received her MA in Creative Writing from Bar-Ilan University in 2008. Her flash essays have appeared in Drunken Boat, Hobart, Word Riot, Blunderbuss and Sundog Lit.
Jane Medved’s chapbook Olam, Shana, Nefesh was released by Finishing Line Press in 2014. Her recent essays and poems have appeared in Lilith Magazine, Mudlark, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly and New American Writing . A native of Chicago, Illinois, she has lived for the last 25 years in Jerusalem, Israel.
Anthony Michael Morena is a writer from New York who lives in Tel Aviv. In 2015 he received his MA in creative writing from Bar-Ilan University. His poetry and prose have appeared or will soon in The Normal School, Ninth Letter, Flapperhouse, and Queen Mob’s Tea House. He is a regular reader for Gigantic Sequins, a good-looking, biannual, black & white literary arts journal. His book The Voyager Record: A Transmission will be published in May 2016 by Rose Metal Press.
Marcela Sulak is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Decency (Black Lawrence Press, 2015). She’s translated four collections of poetry from the Czech, French, and Hebrew, and has co-edited the 2015 Rose Metal Press title, Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Rattle, among others. She directs the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing and hosts the TLV.1 Radio podcast, “Israel in Translation.”
Janice Weizman is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at Bar-Ilan University. In 2009 she initiated and founded Ilanot, the former incarnation of The Ilanot Review. Janice’s work has appeared in The Jerusalem Report, Lilith and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Consequence and Jewish Currents. Her award-wining historical novel, The Wayward Moon, came out in 2012 with Yotzeret publishing.
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