Ayala Sella

Ayala Sella was born on October 19, 1979, in Haifa, Israel. She spent her childhood and adolescence throughout the suburbs of the US, and at the age of 18 moved to New York City. In 2004, she returned to settle in Israel after twenty years.

Her poems have appeared in The 22 Magazine and in Velvet Park, and are forthcoming in The New York Quarterly. In 2011, she self-published a collection of poetry entitled "soliloquies of a crosswalker" which was reviewed in Hyperallergic and KGB Lit Magazine.

She has worked as an archivist, a ticket collector, an art history instructor, a hotel receptionist and a high school English teacher, most of which lasted less than a few months.

She currently lives just outside of Tel Aviv where she is working on her second book and the translation of her first into Hebrew.