The Ilanot Review
Summer 2015: The Men Issue
Managing Editor
Janice Weizman
Fiction Editors
Mitch Ginsburg
Nadia Jacobson
Janice Weizman
Nonfiction Editors
Karen Marron
Marcela Sulak
Poetry Editor
Jane Medved
Guest Poetry Editor
Sarah Wetzel
Guest Fiction Editor
Evan Fallenberg
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
Evan Fallenberg is the author of the novels Light Fell (Soho Press, 2008) and When We Danced on Water (HarperCollins, 2011) and a translator of Hebrew fiction, plays and libretti. He has won or been shortlisted for prizes that include an American Library Association Award, the Edmund White Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the PEN Translation Prize and the TLS Prize for Translation of Hebrew Literature. He teaches in the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University and the MFA program at City University of Hong Kong, and has been invited to residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center/National Endowment for the Arts, and Chateau de Lavigny. Fallenberg serves as an advisor to the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and as a judge for the Galtelli Literary Prize.
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.
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 essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Drunken Boat, Hobart, Word Riot, Blunderbuss and Sundog Lit.
Jane Medved graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Film, Literature and Theater. Her chapbook Olam, Shana, Nefesh was released in 2014 by Finishing Line Press. Recent poems have been published in the Cimarron Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly, New American Writing, and Poetry East. Her translations of Hebrew poetry have appeared in the on-line journal The Bakery. A native of Chicago, Illinois, she has lived for the past 25 years in Jerusalem, Israel.
Marcela Sulak is the author of two poetry collections, Immigrant and Decency, and a chapbook, and she’s translated four collections of poetry from Israel, Hapsburg Bohemia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is co-editor of the forthcoming Family Resemblance: An anthology and exploration of eight hybrid literary forms (Rose Metal Press). Her essays appear in such journals as The Iowa Review, Rattle, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She directs the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing, and hosts the radio podcast “Israel in Translation” on TLV.1.
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, Jewish Fiction, and Lilith and elsewhere. Her novel, The Wayward Moon, was published in 2012. It is the recipient of a Gold Medal in the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards, and won first place for Historical Fiction in the 2013 Midwest Book Awards.
Sarah Wetzel is the author of River Electric with Light, which won the 2013 AROHO Poetry Publication Prize and is forthcoming from Red Hen Press, and Bathsheba Transatlantic, which won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was published by Anhinga Press in 2010. Sarah currently teaches literature and creative writing at The American University of Rome. She still spends a lot of time writing on planes, however, dividing time between Manhattan, Rome, and Tel Aviv, Israel. Sarah holds an engineering degree from Georgia Tech and a MBA from Berkeley. More importantly for her poetry, Sarah completed a MFA in Creative Writing at Bennington College in January 2009. You can read some of her work at www.sarahwetzel.com.
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