Zecharya, Anat

Anat Zecharya was born in Tel Aviv. She is a graduate of the photography department of the WIZO Neri Bloomfield Academy of Design in Haifa and the Alma College of Hebrew Culture in Tel Aviv, and is a dance critic for Yediot Haronot. She has twice been awarded the Poetry in the Streets Prize from the city of Tel Aviv, and the Sha’ar Poetry Festival Young Poet’s Prize. She has published two collections of poetry, Yafa Ahat Kodem (As Soon as Beautiful), from Helicon (2008), and Due to Human Error from the Bialik Institute (2012). ‘Anat Zecharya is an outspoken young poet who writes forthrightly about women’s desires. She does not ignore the times when being on either side of the power equation is part of erotic experience, and she casts her light on the way Israeli politics influences Israeli sex lives.’ (Poetry International).