Saleit Shahaf Poleg

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Saleit Shahaf Poleg is a writer, editor, and university lecturer. Born in 1977, she spent her childhood in Beer-Sheva, and her adolescence on a Kibbutz and in a Moshav (collective agricultural settlement) in the Jezreel Valley in Northern Israel. Shahaf Poleg has an MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Bar-Ilan University, and has published short stories in leading Israel and international literary periodicals, in both Hebrew and English. In the summer of 2017, the Harrison NY Jewish Community Center’s Short Story Club invited her to host a master class discussing her short stories.

 

Till it Rains Again, Poleg’s debut novel, is an Israeli bestseller, topping the charts for weeks and is highly praised by critics and public.

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Novel: Till it Rains Again

Short Stories: All The Way from Oklahoma​