Dara Barnat’s poetry, translations, and essays appear in The Cortland Review, Poet Lore, Ha’aretz, Crab Orchard Review, Lilith, Blue Lyra, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Her collection of poetry In the Absence is forthcoming from Turning Point later in 2016. In 2009 she received a work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Dara holds a PhD from Tel Aviv University, where she is Writing Director in the Department of English and American Studies. darabarnat.com