Dara Bar­nat is a schol­ar of poet­ry and a poet, who holds a Ph.D. from Tel Aviv Uni­ver­si­ty, where she is a senior fac­ul­ty mem­ber and serves as Head of the Divi­sion of Lan­guages. Dara is the author of three poet­ry col­lec­tions: The City I Run From: Poems of Tel Aviv (2020), In the Absence (2016), and Head­wind Migra­tion (2009). Dara’s schol­ar­ly book, titled Walt Whit­man and the Mak­ing of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Poet­ry, was pub­lished by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa Press (Iowa Whit­man Series) in 2023. Oth­er work appears in The Oxford Hand­book of Walt Whit­man, Walt Whit­man Quar­ter­ly Review, Poet Lore, Los Ange­les Review of Books, and else­where. darabar​nat​.com