Dara Barnat is the author of the poetry 
collections In the Absence 
(Turning Point Books, 2016) and 
Headwind Migration, a chapbook 
(Pudding House Publications, 2009). 

Dara also writes critically on poetry
and translates poetry from Hebrew. 
Her research explores Walt Whitman's 
influence on the Jewish American 
poetic tradition. 

She holds a Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University, 
where she teaches presently.