Galit Dahan Carlibach was born and raised in Sderot, Ashdod, and Jerusalem. She has published eight books (among them novels, novellas, and YA fantasy). Her poems, essays and stories are regularly published in local and international journals. Her literary achievements have been highly praised over the years: the ACUM Prize 2013, the Prime Minister Prize for Hebrew Writers 2014, a scholarship for the International Writing Program in Shanghai, the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship for the International Program in Iowa, and the Pardes Scholarship by the Israeli National Library for Young Writers. her latest novel "Under The Sign Of Orphan" will be published next year in German by Kein Und Aber. Dahan Carlibach is a lecturer at Bar Ilan University's writing workshop. lives in Jerusalem, mother of two children.