Israeli-Canadian author of the novels Songs for the Brokenhearted and The Best Place on Earth, and the memoir The Art of Leaving. Her work has received honours including a National Jewish Book Award, the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, and has been recognised by The New York Times, The Globe and Mail and Kirkus.

Israeli novelist whose work draws on lived experience, psychology and questions of trauma and recovery. His novel Dog received two US National Jewish Book Awards and was longlisted for Israel’s Sapir Prize. The Girl Who Rode the White Lion, translated into English by Yardenne Greenspan, is his second novel available in English.

Interviewer, moderator and curator working across writers and ideas festivals. Her interviews include Margaret Atwood, Amos Oz, Zadie Smith, Tim Winton, Etgar Keret, Stan Grant and Zeruya Shalev. She was curator of Big Weekend of Books, ABC RN’s annual on-air writers’ festival, and produces and hosts a monthly book conversation series at Petersham Bowling Club. She is also co-presenter and co-writer of the ABC RN podcast Laya’s Way Home.