Halah author: Shoshana Sarah

Shoshana Sarah is the founder of Poets of Babel, a multilingual poetry club. Her work explores hybrid identity, notions of home, living in translation, and the power of naming. Her lyric essays and poetry appear in The Ilanot Review, מרחב الفضاء Space, Duende, Mixed Race 3.0, בקול רם! (Bekol Ram, the Poetry Slam Israel anthology), Therefore for Thee: Celebrating Walt Whitman in Israel, Identity Theory, The Spotlong Review, Bending Genres, and more. Her manuscript Not on the Map: A Hybrid Lyric Memoir, was recognized as a Dzanc Books longlist honoree and is forthcoming with Alternating Current Press.

She holds a master’s degree, specializing in poetry, from the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She facilitates creative writing and spoken word workshops, voice acts, art models, and teaches academic English. In her spare time, loves camping, playing the zills and karkebs to Gnawa music, dancing contact improv, playing with her bow and arrow, and being a parttime fairy. She is undergoing teacher training in The Portal Method.