Adina Hoffman

Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century, winner of the 2010 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize. She is also the co-author, with Peter Cole, of Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, which received the American Library Association’s award for the Jewish book of the year. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she was awarded a Windham Campbell prize in 2013. She divides her time between Jerusalem and New Haven, Connecticut.