Tal Nitzan is an award winning Israeli poet, writer, editor and a major translator of Hispanic literature. Author of seven poetry books, two novels, a short story collection and six children’s book, and editor of three poetry anthologies. Among the prizes she won are The Prime Minister’s Prize for writers, the women’s writers’ prize, awards for beginning poets and for debut poetry book, the Tchernichovsky Prize for exemplary translation and more. She has participated in various local and international poetry festivals.

Her poems have been translated to more than 20 languages, and appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. 14 collections of her work were published in Lithuanian, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, English and German. She has resided in Buenos Aires, Bogotá and New York.