Dara Barnat is the author of the poetry 
collections In the Absence 
(Turning Point Books, 2016),
the forthcoming chapbook
The City I Run From: Poems of Tel Aviv
(Turning Point Books), and
the chapbook Headwind Migration
(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.