Draft:Yael Hacohen

Yael Shoshana Hacohen (also known as Yael S. Hacohen, Hebrew: יעל שושנה הכהן, born Yael Shoshana Geva; May 19, 1986) is an Israeli poet, author, and translator.

Early life
Hacohen was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Hacohen’s maternal grandmother is a fourth-generation descendent of Yoel Moshe Salomon, founder of the city Petah Tikva in Ottoman Palestine, and publisher of the Ha-Levanon, the first Hebrew language newspaper printed in Palestine.

Education
Hacohen attended Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, the country’s first Hebrew high school, where she studied in the Open University classroom, taking courses in psychology. In 2012, She received an LL.B in Law from Tel Aviv University, and an additional B.A degree in Literature. In 2016, she graduated from New York University, GSAS, with an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry. At NYU she was an ‎NYU Veterans Workshop Fellow, International Editor at Washington Square Literary ‎Review, and Editor-in-Chief at Nine Lines Literary Review.

Hacohen is currently studying for a PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career
Hacohen’s work has been featured in The Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Bellevue Literary Review, LIT, Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly Magazine, and Consequence Magazine.

‎Hacohen's chapbook Between Sanctity and Sand was published with Finishing Line Press in 2021. The chapbook received praise from Yusef Komunyakaa, Edward Hirsch, Deborah Landau, and Craig Morgan Teicher

Books
Between Sanctity and Sand, (Finishing Line Press, 2021)

Translation of Edward Hirsch’s Gabriel A Poem into Hebrew (Keshev LaShira, Forthcoming)

The Dove that Didn't Return (Holy Cow! Press, Forthcoming)