Sharon Hart-Green

Canadian writer Sharon Hart-Green is the author of two works of nonfiction: Not a Simple Story: Love and Politics in a Modern Hebrew Novel (Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), which portrays the modern Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon as an artist cum thinker whose work manifests a deep understanding of the social and political crisis at the heart of modern Jewish life, and Bridging the Divide (Syracuse University Press, 2015), a compilation of her translations of poems by Hava Pinhas-Cohen, one of the leading voices on the contemporary Israeli literary scene. Sharon, who received her PhD in Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, has taught Hebrew and Yiddish literature at the University of Toronto. Her short stories, poems, translations and articles have appeared in a number of publications, including Midstream, The Jewish Review of Books, and JewishFiction.net. She recently completed her debut novel, Come Back for Me (forthcoming, The New Jewish Press), a story of love and loss set in the aftermath of World War II, and is currently at work on a second novel, about the mystical inclinations of a young man in search of love.