Hila Amit

Hila Amit’s work appeared in Emrys Journal, The Washington Square Review, The Sycamore Review, Granta, and elsewhere. Her short stories collection, Moving on From Bliss (2016), was awarded the Israeli Ministry of Culture Prize for a debut. Her non-fiction book, A Queer Way Out (Albany: SUNY, 2018), was awarded the 2019 AMEWS Book Award. Her novel The Town Below was published in Hebrew in September 2022. She has received fellowships from MacDowell and the Vermont Studio Center, as well as another residency at the Ragdale Foundation.

Hila Amit will be working on a collection of short stories entrenched within a realm where her homeland, Israel, and her mother tongue, Hebrew, have vanished from existence. Within this dystopian backdrop, Amit navigates themes of migration, estrangement, relationships, mental health, and queer kinship. Amit meticulously situates her protagonists across diverse locations and times, enabling them to reflect on their Israeli heritage while forging new paths toward their future.