Hagit Grossman

Hagit Grossman was born in 1976 in Rishon LeZion

Hagit Grossman was born on September 26, 1976, in Rishon LeZion. After her parents separated, her father raised her and her two sisters alone. A poem of hers appeared in a school newspaper when she was a young child.

She attended high school in Ness Ziona. She studied photography at Camera Obscura, theater at Beit Zvi and painting at Hamidrasha. She earned a bachelor's degree in literature at Tel Aviv University and a master's degree at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Her first poetry book, published in 2007, is a farewell to her father. She has published poetry books, novels and a short story collection. Her novel Laila and Lewis was one of 5 finalists for the Sapir Prize.

Her poem On Friendship appeared in The New Yorker. Her poetry was translated and published in France and in the UK. She has taught writing at Musrara in Jerusalem.

She lives in Tel Aviv with her husband, literature scholar and translator Yehonatan Dayan. The couple has two daughters.