Gili Haimovich

Gili Haimovich is a prizewinning poet who writes bilingually in Hebrew and English. She is the author of four poetry collections in English, including Promise Lands (Finishing Line Press, USA,2020), and six books in Hebrew, the most recent one is Nisu'em Be'Preda (Trails in Farewells) as well as a multilingual book of her poem Note. Haimovich has received international honors, including Best Foreign Poet awards at the Italian poetry competitions I Colori dell'Anima (2020) and Ossi di Seppia (2019), a Grant for Excellence from the Israeli Ministry of Culture (2015), and a fellowship residency at the International Writers' Workshop in Hong Kong (2021). Her poetry has been translated into 35 languages, with full-length books published in French, Albanian, Serbian, and Estonian. Her work is published extensively in international anthologies and literary journals such as World Literature Today, The Best Asian Poetry Anthology, 101Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium, A World Anthology of Border Poetry: Blurred and Political and Asymptote, as well as major Hebrew publications such as The Most Beautiful Poems in Hebrew - One Hundred Years of Israeli Poetry, A Naked Queen: An Anthology of Israeli Social Protest Poetry, and Open Sky – Anthology of Aviation Poetry. She participates in literary festivals and events worldwide, including Canada, France, Mexico, Italy, India, Germany, Romania, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Kosovo, Chile, Kenya, and Mongolia.

Her work as an editor and translator includes the English-French poetry anthology Under Our Ruptured Sky (Editions Unicite, France, 2024), translations of poems into English by eminent Israeli poet Nurit Zarchi, the contemporary Uruguayan poet Teresa Krondi, the first Estonian poetry books published in Hebrew by Jaan Kaplinski and Mathura, and a variety of poetry translations in Hebrew of poets such as Fiona Sampson, Silivia Goldman, Dara Barnat, Hasan Erkak and more. 

Her photography has been presented in the United States, Canada, Chile and Uruguay she has taught creative writing in universities and literary venues in Israel, Canada, and India.