Yael S. Hacohen is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. She has received research/teaching fellowships from Tel Aviv University and Bar Ilan University. She has an MFA in Poetry from New York University, where she was an NYU Veterans Workshop Fellow, International Editor at Washington Square Literary Review, and Editor-in-Chief at Nine Lines Literary Review. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in The Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Bellevue Literary Review, LIT, Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly Magazine, Colorado Review, and many more. Hacohen published her chapbook Between Sanctity and Sand with Finishing Line Press in 2021. Hacohen served as a lieutenant in the 162nd Armored Division of the Israeli Defense Forces.

"Yael Hacohen's The Dove That Didn't Return is a transformative book. You may enter this collection thinking you know what it means to be a woman, a mother, a soldier, a witness. You may enter it thinking you know plenty about violence and loss, duty and commitment, tenderness and mercy. But you will leave this book with different wisdom. Hacohen's unforgettable poems reckon with themes that reveal-above all, what it means to be human." -Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"Sacred and profane, biblically infused yet utterly contemporary, Yael Hacohen's beautiful, harrowing, war-torn, and soulful lyrics leave me shaken and uplifted. The Dove That Didn't Return is timely and timeless."--Edward Hirsch, author of Gabriel: A Poem and 100 Poems to Break Your Heart

Publisher: Holy Cow Press

Pub date: 2024-06-25

Length: 76 pages