Lee Kofman, the bilingual author of three fiction books (in Hebrew), emigrated from Russia to Israel in 1985, and to Australia in 2000. Since 2002 her short fiction, non-fiction and poetry in English appeared in Australia, Scotland, UK and USA in Island, Griffith Review, Heat, Westerley, Antipodes and more. She is the recipient of the Australian Council grant 2004, the Varuna Eric Dark Flagship Fellowship 2005, Emerging Writer-in-Residence in Katharine Susanna Pritchard Writers Centre 2007. She holds MA of Creative Writing (University of Melbourne) and teaches creative writing at various community settings.