Literatureדנה ג. פלג

Dana G. Peleg

Dana G. Peleg is an Israeli writer, poet, journalist and translator who wrote the first regular column in Israel about lesbian and bisexual women.

born 1969First Israeli lesbian press columnThe collection Figs, My LoveHebrew and English literary translationWomen's and LGBT rights activism

Born: 7 August 1969, Kiryat Bialik
Occupation: translator, writer, columnist

Dana G. Peleg was born in 1969 in Kiryat Bialik

Dana Faibish was born on August 7, 1969, in Kiryat Bialik and grew up in Kiryat Haim. Her parents, a social worker and a steam engine mechanic, each came from Romania and met in Israel. At 18 she changed her surname to Peleg.

She earned a BA and an MA in art history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. While living in California from 2004 to 2009, she studied creative writing and screenwriting at Cabrillo College.

She began writing for youth magazines at 16. From 1996 to 2006 she wrote a personal column in At magazine about lesbian and bisexual women, and she later wrote for many LGBT publications and websites.

Her story collection Figs, My Love appeared in 2000, followed by Wiffee in 2015 and her first novel, Giantess' Hand, in 2024. She also translates between Hebrew and English and received the Andersen award for 2018 for a translation.

She married Miriam Hill in California in 2008, and they have a son. She lives in the United States with her family.