Born in Winnipeg, Canada, grew up in Vancouver, Canada.  In 1973, moved with husband and daughters to a Kibbutz in the Jezreal Valley of Israel where we lived for 25 years. In the same valley, now live in a community built into the Gilboa mountains. 

Education:  Education Diploma – University of Manitoba, Canada B.A. in literature and linguistics, University of Haifa, Israel 

Member of the Israeli Association of Authors. 

Prizes – poetry, play, fiction:  selected listing: 
B.B.C. Radio Play Contest – short listed, 1993 
Reuben Rose International Poetry Contest:   2nd prize  1995, 3rd prize   1999 
    Hon. Mention, 1994, 1966 x 2, 1999 x 2 
Taproot Poetry contest:   2nd prize  1996, 1999;  Hon. Mention  ?1998 
Canadian Writers’ Journal Contest:    2nd prize, 1998 
Kimera Fiction Competition:  Honorable Mention 1999 

Publications – poetry and prose, selected listing: 
London Magazine(England), Parchment (Canada) 
Women’s Studies Quarterly (CUNY, New York) 
The Jerusalem Review and The Tel Aviv Review (Israel) 
Gaspereau Review (Canada), ARC (Israel), Voices (Israel) Taproot Literary Review (USA) 
numerous anthologies 

Pending publication:  poetry/short fiction: Aftertaste  (Canadian publisher). 

Editor of Kibbutz Trends (quarterly of contemporary issues) 

Translator, text writer.