Hila Amit
Berlin, Germany
Fiction & Nonfiction
Hila Amit’s fiction and non-fiction works appeared in Lilith, Jalta, Emrys Journal, The Washington Square Review, The Sycamore Review, Granta and several prominent Israeli literary magazines. Her short stories collection, Moving on From Bliss (Tel-Aviv: Am Oved, 2016), was awarded the Israeli Ministry of Culture Prize for Debut Authors. Her non-fiction book, A Queer Way Out – The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel (Albany: SUNY, 2018) was awarded the Association of Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS) Book Award for 2019. In 2020 she published the queer feminist Hebrew learning book Hebrew for All (Münster: Edition Assemblage & Haifa:Pardes). Her new novel, The Town Below, was published in Hebrew (Tel Aviv: Am-Oved) in September 2022. She is a recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, a Vermont Studio center fellowship, and a Bogliasco Foundation fellowship.