Ayelet Tsabari

AYELET TSABARI is the author of the memoir in essays The Art of Leaving, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the Vine National Canadian Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction. It was also chosen as a Best Book of 2019 by Apple Books and Kirkus Reviews. Tsabari was a co-editor, with Leonarda Carranza and Eufemia Fantetti, of the anthology Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language. Her first book,The Best Place on Earth,won theSami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literatureand theEdward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction. It was named aNew York TimesBook ReviewEditors’ Choice book and was a Kirkus ReviewBest Debut Fiction of 2016 title. It was also nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Ayelet Tsabari is a graduate ofSimon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio and theMFA in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph. She teaches in the MFA creative writing program at the University of Guelph, the MFA in Fiction program at the University of King’s College and the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University.