Yael Hacohen is a doctorate student at University of California, Berkeley. She received research/teaching fellowships from Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University. She has a master’s in fine arts from New York University, where she was a Veterans Workshop Fellow and International Editor at the Washington Square Literary Review. Her work has been featured in the Poetry Review, the Missouri Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other places. Hacohen published a chapbook titled Between Sanctity and Sand (Finishing Line Press, 2021).