Maya Maytav

Maya Maytav was born in 1973 in Ramat Yohanan

Maya Maytav was born on October 2, 1973, and grew up on Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan. Her parents are swimmer Ilana Maytav-Rodrig and David Maytav, and she is the youngest of their 5 children. She attended the Beit Hinuch Carmel Zevulun high school on Kibbutz Yagur.

She served in the Nahal Brigade and then moved to Tel Aviv. In 1994 she began studying graphic design at Mimad College and later worked as a graphic designer. She also studied the Feldenkrais-related Greenberg method and worked in that field.

In 2011 she started a blog called Green Mom on Saloona, about raising children in the city, health and cooking. She later studied writing for children and earned a bachelor's degree in literature at Tel Aviv University.

10 of her books have been published, the latest inspired by her childhood in the kibbutz communal sleeping system. She writes for children's magazines and a column for Haaretz, and wrote book recommendations for Ynet. In 2024 she initiated a poetry and art project shown at the Nahum Gutman Museum.

With author Gur Ilani she hosts a podcast on children's and youth literature. She is married, has 3 sons and lives in Tel Aviv.