Hamutal Bar-Yosef

Hamutal Bar-Yosef is an Israeli poet born in 1940 on Kibbutz Tel Yosef. She is professor emerita at Ben-Gurion University. Her work has won the Israel President's Prize for Poetry and the Prime Minister's Prize for Poetry. Her forthcoming collection The Miraculous Mistake, published by Sheep Meadow Press in August 2026, is translated from Hebrew by Esther Cameron, founding editor of The Deronda Review.