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Keren Landsman

Keren Landsman is an Israeli epidemiologist and writer of science fiction and fantasy who has won several Geffen Awards.

born 1977The novel Heart of the CircleGeffen Award-winning science fiction storiesEpidemiology and public health work

Born: 28 December 1977
Occupation: writer, epidemiologist
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Keren Landsman was born in 1977

Keren Landsman was born on December 28, 1977. She began reading and writing science fiction and fantasy at age 12.

She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion and became a doctor specializing in epidemiology. She works at the Levinski Clinic in Tel Aviv.

She served as professional director of Mida'at, a nonprofit that promotes public health and access to medical information, from its founding until 2018. She also writes a blog that follows epidemics and their outbreaks.

Four of her short stories won the Geffen Award. Her story collection Broken Skies appeared in 2014, and her urban fantasy novel Heart of the Circle appeared in 2018, with an English edition in 2019. Both books won the Geffen Award, and a sequel, The Bottom of the Well, came out in late 2024.

She is married to Yoav Landsman, an engineer at SpaceIL. The couple has 2 children.