Gili Estlin Hirsch

Gili Estlin Hirsch is a poet, playwright, screenwriter and author. Born and raised in Kfar Saba, a city near Tel Aviv, Israel, she uses dense and rich language to create striking poetry that explores themes such as love and relationships and queer life.

Gili started writing when she was 11. Her major poetry experience began at the age of 13, following the second Lebanon War in Israel. She honed her skills in various workshops both in Israel and the United States, and was first published at the age of 21.

Gili is also the founder of the social poetry movement Apples Etc. The mission of Apples Etc. is to give real, tangible room for poetry in the art world by bringing it to life visually, uprooting it from its nestled rest on shelves, and providing words with the room to present themselves in an immediate and hard-hitting way.

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