Alex Epstein

Alex Epstein was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in 1971 and moved to Israel when he was eight years old. He is the author of four collections of short stories and three novels; his work has also been translated into Russian, French, Greek, Spanish, Hungarian, Dutch, Croatian, Polish, and Italian. In 2003 he was awarded Israel’s Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature. In 2007 he participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He writes literary reviews for several newspapers and teaches creative writing in Tel Aviv. His short-short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in English in the Kenyon Review, Words Without Borders, the Iowa Review, Rhino, Zeek, and Natural Bridge.