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Yonit Naaman

Yonit Naaman is an Israeli poet, editor and literary researcher, known for her poetry collections published in 2015 and 2018.

born 1975The poetry book Pining for the TreetopsEditing the Haoketz websiteMizrahi and feminist poetry

Born: 13 March 1975, Yehud
Occupation: poet, literary editor
Education: University of Cambridge, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University

Yonit Naaman was born in 1975 in Yehud

Naaman was born in Yehud on March 13, 1975, to Dahlia and Ohaliav Naaman. She went to high school in Yehud.

She earned a bachelor's degree in literature at Tel Aviv University and a master's degree in religious studies at the University of Cambridge. She later became a doctoral candidate in Hebrew literature at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

Naaman is co-editor of the website Haoketz and literary editor of the Maktoob series at Hargol Publishing, backed by the Van Leer Institute. She teaches poetry at Sapir Academic College, leads dialog workshops for Jews and Arabs, and sits on the board of Zazim, Community Action.

Her first poetry book, Pining for the Treetops, came out in 2015, and her second, If a Heart Falls, in 2018. Her poems deal with identity, feminism, race and family life. She also co-edited the 2007 book Rainbow of Opinions: A Mizrahi Agenda for Israel.

She received the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works and, in 2022, the Haim Guri prize. She lives in Tel Aviv and is a mother of 2.