Dara Barnat is a scholar of poetry, a poet, and a lecturer
in poetry, creative writing, and academic writing. She holds a Ph.D.
from Tel Aviv University, where she is a senior faculty member
and serves as Head of the Division of Languages.

Her scholarly book – Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American 
Poetry – was published in 2023 by the University of Iowa Press
(Iowa Whitman Series). Critical essays on poetry appear or are forthcoming
in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Los Angeles Review of Books,
The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman, and elsewhere.

Dara is the author of three poetry collections: 
The City I Run From: Poems of Tel Aviv (2020), In the Absence (2016), 
and Headwind Migration (2009). Other poems and translations from Hebrew 
have appeared in The Cortland Review, diode, Poet Lore, 
Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been translated 
into Hebrew, French, and Romanian.