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Lior Maayan was born in Tel Aviv to a family with over 200 years in Jerusalem. He and his wife live in Ramat Hasharon, they have three children and one granddaughter. Lior is an entrepreneur and a Hi-tech executive with Physics and Math background from the Hebrew University Talpiot project and the Technion, with a MBA from INSEAD France. Lior is a graduate of Helicon Hebrew-Arabic poetry program, Poetry Place Arabic-Hebrew poetry translation group and Beit Avi Chai Poetry Editing workshop. Lior is a 2023 – 24 ALMA-Metanel Fellow and a winner of the Weizmann Institute Poetry Award and a 2023 laureate of The Clil EcoPoetics Prize. Lior’s first poem was published in the Arabic Kol Alarab weekly. Lior’s work appeared in Granta, Asymptote, Yediot Aharonot, Meshiv Haruach. English, Arabic, Spanish and French translation of his poetry appeared internationally. His book That Green (Shira Stav editor) was published by Afik publishing in 2019 and was shortlisted on Haaretz.