Draft:Yael S. 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.

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, 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 a fourth generation University of California Berkeley graduate who received a PhD in Rhetoric.

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

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

Awards
Hacohen was shortlisted in the New Millennium Writings Award 2021.

Hacohen won the 2023 Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award.

Books

 * Between Sanctity and Sand (Finishing Line Press, 2021) ISBN 9781737405191
 * A translation of Edward Hirsch’s Gabriel: A Poem into Hebrew (Keshev LaShira, 2023)
 * The Dove That Didn't Return (Holy Cow! Press, ISBN 9781737405191)