Yardenne Greenspan is a writer and Hebrew trans­la­tor born in Tel Aviv. She was a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to Ploughshares from 2016 to 2023. Her writ­ing has been fea­tured in Lit­er­ary Hub, Haaretz, Words With­out Bor­ders, Asymp­tote, Two Lines, and Apogee, among oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. Her trans­la­tions have been pub­lished by Rest­less Books, St. Martin’s Press, Akashic, Syra­cuse Uni­ver­si­ty, New Ves­sel Press, Ama­zon Cross­ing, and Far­rar, Straus & Giroux. Her trans­la­tion of The Mem­o­ry Mon­ster by Yishai Sarid was a 2020 New York Times Notable Book and her trans­la­tions of Where I Am by Dana Shem-Ur and the anthol­o­gy West Jerusalem Noir were 2023 World Lit­er­a­ture Today Notable Trans­la­tions. She has an MFA from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty and lives in New York City.