About Fixations – Obsessions and Repair
The Ilanot Review
Summer 2024-Winter 2025
Fixations: Obsessions and Repair
Managing Editor
Marcela Sulak
Guest Editors for Poetry
Adam Day
Athena Kildegaard
Guest Editor for Flash/Micro Prose
Christine H. Chen
Poetry Editor
Jane Medved
Prose Editors
Vivian Cohen-Leisorek
Nadia Jacobson
Marcela Sulak
Production Editor
Karen Marron
Event Coordinator
Yoni Hammer-Kossoy
Webmaster
Yossi Nachemi
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, who are alumni and faculty from the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. We strive to create conversations here that could occur nowhere else.
The Ilanot Review Staff
Christine H. Chen was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Madagascar before settling in Boston where she worked as a research chemist. Her fiction has been published in CRAFT Literary, Hobart, SmokeLong Quarterly, Atticus Review, Pithead Chapel, and other journals and anthologies. Her work was selected for inclusion in Wigleaf Top 50 in 2023 and has received Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fiction, and Pushcart nominations. She is a recipient of the 2022 Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, and the co-translator from French of the novel My Lemon Tree (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023). Read more at www.christinehchen.com
Vivian Cohen-Leisorek is a Guatemalan-Israeli writer currently completing an MA in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University. Her work has appeared in The Tel Aviv Review of Books, Paper Brigade Daily, Underground and BusinessWeek, among others. She is the second-place winner of the 2024 Dave Greber Nonfiction Social Justice Awards.
Adam Day is the author of Left-Handed Wolf (LSU Press, 2020), and of Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande Books), and the recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, and of a PEN America Literary Award.
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 or is forthcoming in The Miramichi Review, The Waking, Meniscus, Annalemma, The Binnacle, Every Day Fiction and a number of anthologies. She is currently working on two interweaving novels.
Athena Kildegaard‘s most recent book of poetry is Prairie Midden (Tinderbox Editions). Her poems have appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Colorado Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, North American Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. She teaches at the University of Minnesota Morris.
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 received her MA in Creative Writing from Bar-Ilan University in 2008, and currently lives in Queens. Find her at karenmarron.com.
Jane Medved is the author of Wayfarers (forthcoming from Grid Books 2024) Deep Calls To Deep (winner of the Many Voices Project, New Rivers Press) and the chapbook Olam, Shana, Nefesh (Finishing Line Press). Her translation of Wherever We Float (by Maya Tevet Dayan) won the Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize and is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books. Recent work has appeared in Bending Genres, ONE ART, Literary Mama, Ruminate, The North American Review and The Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology. Her awards include winner of the 2021 RHINO translation prize and the 2021 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize – Honorable Mention. Her translations of Hebrew poetry can be seen in Hala, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Copper Nickel. She is a visiting lecturer in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv.
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 four translated collections of poetry from the Czech, French, and Hebrew have been awarded the NEA Translation Fellowship and long-listed for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She has co-edited the 2015 Rose Metal Press title, Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres. Associate Professor of Literature, Sulak directs the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing.
Yoni Hammer-Kossoy is a poet, translator, and educator. Winner of the 2020 Andrea Moriah Prize in Poetry, his writing appears in numerous international journals and anthologies. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Yoni has lived with his family in Jerusalem for the last 25 years. Yoni’s first poetry collection, “The Book of Noah”, was published by Grayson Books in April 2023, and his first full-length translation of a Hebrew poetry collection, “Ana Samar – I Am Samar” by Zmira Poran Zion, was published in September 2023.
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