Back, Rachel Tzvia

Rachel Tzvia Back - poet, translator and professor of literature - was born in the USA and has lived in Israel for the last 27 years. Her poetry collections include Azimuth (Sheep Meadow Press) and The Buffalo Poems (Duration Press). Back's translations of Hebrew poetry have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poetry from Antiquity to the Present (The Feminist Press). Her translations of the poetry of Lea Goldberg - a pre-eminent and too often overlooked poet of modern Hebrew letters - were collected in Lea Goldberg: Selected Poetry and Dr...