Yakir Ben Moshe

Yakir Ben Moshe was born in 1973 in Tel Aviv

Yakir Ben Moshe was born in Tel Aviv on September 11, 1973. He is the nephew of the poet Roni Somek and is married to Shirley.

He graduated from the Helicon poetry school in 1997. From 1998 he took part in poetry festivals in Israel, and from 1998 to 2001 he ran the writing program at Mataan, a youth arts project.

Since 2000 he has been literary editor at Beit Bialik in Tel Aviv, and in 2024 he became its director. Since 2004 he has been literary editor of Poetry on the Road, a Tel Aviv-Yafo city project that put poems on bus stops. In 2005 he joined the Helicon journal and press, and he has edited many poetry books and translated anthologies.

His first book, Every Morning at Least One Blond Guy Becomes Bald, came out in 2003 and won the Culture Minister's prize. His poems have been translated into several languages, and he received the Prime Minister's Prize in 2012. He also writes criticism for Haaretz, teaches writing workshops, judges literary prizes and writes for children.