Hagit Grossman

her first poem was published at the age of six in school news paper. When she was ten, her parents separated and her father raised her and her two sisters on his own. when she was fourteen one of her poems was published in an anthology.

She was educated in high school in Ness Ziona. She studied photography at "Camera Obscura". she studied theater at "Beit Zvi" and painting at the Art College "Hamidrasha". She studied Hebrew and General Literature at Tel Aviv University. In 2006, She studied for a master's degree in Literary and creative Writing in the Department of Hebrew Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She teaches writing at "Musrara", a multidisciplinary art school in Jerusalem, lives in Tel Aviv, she is married to yehonatan dayan, a literature scholar, editor and translator, they have two daughters. She is one of the most prominent of the young generation's poets, her work has been published in various literary journals.

So far, she has published four poetry books, nine poems for Samuel (Plonit Publishing House, 2007), Ash Whales (Keshev Leshira, 2010), trembling of the city (Keshev Leshira 2013) and the book of the body (Hakibutz Hameuhad, 2017), as well as novels Where they are not (Yedioth Books, 2012), Laila and Lewis (Kineret Zmora Bitan, 2014). And drafts (Kineret Zmora Bitan, 2018). In 2017, a short story book was published, To Revive Silent Things (Pardes Publishing).

Her first book of poems is a kind of lament to her father, a sensitive journey with a description of the relationship and longing for him:

Let the light undress the shadow's secret from your thin arms. Your blue eyes freezes by the flight of the great light And I sit and stare into the dark, my neck wrapped around your shadowed scarves. (Nine poems for Samuel, "Let the Light")

In her second book of poems there are lamentations to her lover who committed suicide alongside Love poems to her current lover, and poems of childhood memories, relationships and anxiety:

At night, I saw you through a veil of darkness And I dreamt I had a smile. A warm sound passed through my body And your love does not subside. "(Ash whales," Through a Veil")

In her first novel, Where they are Not, she manages to tread the fine boundaries between poetry and prose, and best describes a world where the occult and the visible are mutually intertwined. Her poems deal with the tension between foreignness and love, between death, absence and longing for the past and finding ways to revive it through poetry. At times it seems abstract and ambiguous, but its linguistic sensitivity and penetrating gaze create an expressive and rich expression that indicates virtuosic talent, without inhibition or formal restraint. Her poetry, wrote Erez Schweitzer (2010), is an event of passion and holiness, of vitality and of death, of danger but also of refuge.

Her poetry was published in France by "Levant" and in England by Shearsman Books. Her poem "on friendship" published in The New Yorker, participates in research at a hospital that examines the impact of writing and reading poetry on cancer patients[2]