Lior Maayan was born in Tel Aviv to a fam­i­ly with over 200 years in Jerusalem. He and his wife live in Ramat Hasharon, they have three chil­dren and one grand­daugh­ter. Lior is an entre­pre­neur and a Hi-tech exec­u­tive with Physics and Math back­ground from the Hebrew Uni­ver­si­ty Tal­pi­ot project and the Tech­nion, with a MBA from INSEAD France. Lior is a grad­u­ate of Heli­con Hebrew-Ara­bic poet­ry pro­gram, Poet­ry Place Ara­bic-Hebrew poet­ry trans­la­tion group and Beit Avi Chai Poet­ry Edit­ing work­shop. Lior is a 2023 – 24 ALMA-Metanel Fel­low and a win­ner of the Weiz­mann Insti­tute Poet­ry Award and a 2023 lau­re­ate of The Clil EcoPo­et­ics Prize. Lior’s first poem was pub­lished in the Ara­bic Kol Alarab week­ly. Lior’s work appeared in Gran­ta, Asymp­tote, Yediot Aharonot, Meshiv Haru­ach. Eng­lish, Ara­bic, Span­ish and French trans­la­tion of his poet­ry appeared inter­na­tion­al­ly. His book That Green (Shi­ra Stav edi­tor) was pub­lished by Afik pub­lish­ing in 2019 and was short­list­ed on Haaretz.