Yael Hacohen is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. She has an MFA in Poetry from New York University, where she was an NYU Veterans Workshop Fellow, International Editor at Washington Square Literary Review, and Editor-in-Chief at Nine Lines Literary Review. Her work has been featured in The Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Bellevue Literary Review, LIT, Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly Magazine, Colorado Review, and many more. Her chapbook Between Sanctity and Sand (Finishing Line Press, 2021) explores themes of war, Jewish traditions, and social justice and has received praise from Yosef Komunyakaa, Deborah Landau, and others. She published a translation of Edward Hirsch's Gabriel: A Poem into Hebrew (Keshev LaShira, 2023), and her full-length poetry collection, The Dove That Didn't Return, is forthcoming with Holy Cow! Press.
