Gabriel Levin

Gabriel Levin is a poet, essayist and translator. He was born in France, grew up in the United States and Israel, and has been living in Jerusalem since 1972. His first collection of poetry, Sleepers of Beulah, published by Sinclair-Stevenson (London)in 1992, was followed by three collections with Anvil (London) who also published his translations of the Medieval Hebrew-Andalusian poet Yehuda Halevi, Poems from the Diwan. Levin is the co-translator of the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali's selection, So What: New & Selected Poems and a Story, published by Copper Canyon (USA), and is one of the founding editors of Ibis Editions, a small press in Jerusalem dedicated to the publication of literature from the Levant. His collection of essays, The Dune's Twisted Edge, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2012 and his new collection of poems, Coming Forth By Day, is out with Carcanet.