Head of the Creative Writing Program at the Hebrew University. In recent years, he has been engaged in eco-poetic research of literature. He has published books of prose, poetry and essays, including "Kin" and "Netanya" (English translations by Dalkey Archive Press), "Muck" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). He has translated books by Yoel Hoffman, Alan Watts and Gary Hotham. He has won the Bernstein Prize, the Israeli Prime Minister's Prize, the Y.L. Goldberg Prize, the Newman Prize and the Bialik Prize