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Gili Haimovich, is an Israeli Canadian poet writing bilingually in Hebrew and English. She was awarded prizes for best foreign poet at the international Italian poetry competitions I colori dell’anima (2020) and Ossi di Seppia (2019), a prize at the Proves Hong Kong International Poetry Contest (2017), a grant for excellency by The Ministry of Culture of Israel (2015), and more. She is the author of four books in English including Promised Lands (Finishing Line Press, 2020, US), as well as a multilingual book of her poem Note, (El nido del fénix, 2019, Mexico). In Israel she has published seven volumes of Hebrew, her recent one, Experiments in Parting is coming out these days. Her poems are translated into 34 languages and published worldwide in numerous anthologies and journals such as: The Best Asian Poetry Anthology, World Literature Today, 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium, New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust and A World Anthology of Border Poetry. In Israel her writing is widely published in major publications such as The Most Beautiful Poems in Hebrew – A Hundred Years of Israeli Poetry and A Naked Queen – An Anthology of Israeli Social Protest Poetry. As a poetry translator and editor, she was the first to bring Estonian poetry books into Hebrew, for which she received recognition from the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for her contribution and distribution of Estonian culture (2022). Gili is a graduate of the Create Institute, The international school for interdisciplinary studies and the art school Camera Obscura and engages also with visual art, editing and teaching writing from an interdisciplinary approach.