Avraham Bar-Av (Bentata) was born in Egypt and currently lives in the Galilee. He studied Theater Arts and English Literature at Tel Aviv University. He has written and directed plays, including "The Industry of Cow Disease" and "The Floating Circus," and also published short stories in major literary magazines. He is a member of The Hebrew Writers Association. His collection of short stories, "Moroccan Pushkin," won the 2013 literary prize of the General Union of Writers in Israel.