Participants Poets

Hagit Grossman

poetess

Israel

Was born in Rishon Letsion in 1976.

She wrote her first poem (to her father) when she was six, and published her first poem in an anthology when she was fourteen.

At seventeen she studied still photography at Camera Obscura, theatre at beit zvi, painting at the arts academy and literature at Tel Aviv University. Studied for her master’s degree in Hebrew literature Ben Gurion University.

Her writing has appeared in various literary journals and her first book of poetry “Nine Poems for Shmuel”, a journey of prayer for her dead father, was published in 2007.

Her second book “Ash Whales” was published in 2010.