Marcela Sulak will discuss her translation of Orit Gidali’s Selected Poems: Twenty Girls to Envy Me, including the collaborative writing, re-writing, and translation that occurred as the poet and translator revised Gidali’s previously published work.  She will also discuss her negotiation of sensitive biographical and political materials in Gidali’s Israeli love poetry, such as suicide, military service during West-Bank occupation, and the gradual change in the fabric of Israeli society.

Marcela Sulak is the author of three collections of poetry, four book-length poetry translations from Hebrew, French, and Czech, and the co-editor of the 2015 Rose Metal Press title: Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres. She teaches American Literature and Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University