Yaara She­hori is an Israeli nov­el­ist and poet. She has been an edi­tor of Hebrew lit­er­a­ture at Keter Books since 2013. In 2015, She­hori was award­ed the Prime Min­is­ter Levi Eshkol Cre­ative Writ­ing Prize for Writ­ers and Poets and the Min­is­ter of Culture’s Prize for Upcom­ing Writ­ers. She holds a PhD in Hebrew lit­er­a­ture from the Hebrew Uni­ver­si­ty of Jerusalem and was award­ed a Ful­bright schol­ar­ship and a fel­low­ship from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa Inter­na­tion­al Writ­ing Pro­gram. In 2017, Aquar­i­um was rec­og­nized with the Bern­stein Prize for the best orig­i­nal Hebrew-lan­guage novel.