Dara Barnat is the author  
of a full-length collection 
of poetry, In the Absence, 
as well as two chapbooks,
The City I Run From: Poems of Tel Aviv (2020) 
and Headwind Migration (2009). 
 
Dara also writes critically on poetry
and translates poetry from Hebrew. 
Her scholarship explores Walt Whitman's 
influence on the Jewish American 
poetic tradition. 

Dara holds a Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University, 
where she currently teaches.

(Photo Credit: Dani Sarusi Photography)