Shi­mon Adaf was born in Sderot, Israel, and now lives in Jaf­fa. A poet, nov­el­ist, and musi­cian, Adaf worked for sev­er­al years as a lit­er­ary edi­tor at Keter Pub­lish­ing House and has also been a writer-in-res­i­dence at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa. He leads the cre­ative writ­ing pro­gram and lec­tures on Hebrew lit­er­a­ture at Ben-Guri­on Uni­ver­si­ty of the Negev. Adaf received the Yehu­da Amichai prize for Hebrew poet­ry (2010) for the col­lec­tion Avi­va-No; the Sapir Prize (2012) for the nov­el Mox Nox, the Eng­lish trans­la­tion of which, by Philip Simp­son, won the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s 2020 Paper Brigade Award for New Israeli Fic­tion in Hon­or of Jane Weitz­man; and the I. and B. New­man Prize for Hebrew Lit­er­a­ture (2017).