Maya Tevet Dayan is an Israeli-Cana­di­an poet and writer. She’s the recip­i­ent of the Israeli Prime Min­is­ter award for lit­er­a­ture for 2018, and an hon­or­able men­tion from the Kugel Poet­ry Prize for 2016. Poems from her three crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed poet­ry col­lec­tions have been trans­lat­ed into Eng­lish, Span­ish, Ger­man and Chi­nese, and have appeared in Mod­ern Poet­ry in Trans­la­tion, World Lit­er­a­ture Today, Lit­er­ary Review of Cana­da, Gran­ta, Asymp­tote, The New Quar­ter­ly, Rat­tle, Cop­per Nick­le, Cagibi and oth­ers. Her poem ​“For­eign-ness” was a final­ist for the Rat­tle Poet­ry Prize for 2019, and her poem ​“Cot­ton” won the 2021 Rhi­no trans­la­tion prize. She holds a PhD in Indi­an Phi­los­o­phy and Lit­er­a­ture and her trans­la­tions of San­skrit Poet­ry have appeared in var­i­ous venues in Israel, the US and India. Her lat­est book, Fem­i­nism, as I Told it to My Daugh­ters (2023) is a best­selling short mem­oir in essays based on her high­ly pop­u­lar fem­i­nist columns and essays pub­lished over the years in Haaretz mag­a­zine. She is cur­rent­ly teach­ing cre­ative writ­ing and poet­ry at San Diego State University.