Dalia Rosenfeld
Modigliani Street 6/6
Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
Tel: 050-635-5559
E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
1998: MFA in fiction writing, Iowa Writers Workshop, University of Iowa
1994: B.A. In Jewish Studies, Oberlin College
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015-present: Translation editor (translator: Daniella Zamir)
Sample clients:
Dov Alfon (A Long Night in Paris)
Sarah Blau (The Others)
Michal Ben-Naftali (The Teacher)
Iddo Gefen (Jerusalem Beach)
Asaf Ashery (Simantov, 2019)
Keren Landsman (The Heart of the Circle)
Shay Aspril (The Judge)
Ilana Bernstein (Tomorrow We’ll Go to the Amusement Park)
Carmi Gillon and Yossi Shavit (Vicious Messiah)
Hila Blum (How to Love Your Daughter)
Noa Gutter Sagi (Missing Things)
2015-present: Freelance literary/developmental editor of novels and short story collections
2019-present: Script editor
Sample clients:
Keshet TV ("Detective Pita" series, 2018)
Shmuel Maoz (Screenplay: "Stardust," 2019)
Adam Sanderson (Screenplay: "The Victim," 2019)
Asaf Ashery ("Diamonds" TV series)
Ayala Sharot (screenplay synopsis, "No Witches in the Valley," 2020)
Ilan Aboody (screenplay subtitle editor, "Jerusalem," 2021)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fall, 2021: Instructor of Creative Writing, Ben Gurion University
Spring, 2020: Instructor of Fiction Writing, Tel Aviv University
2014-2019: Instructor of Fiction Writing, Bar Ilan University, Israel
2017-2019: Instructor of Fiction Writing, Ben Gurion University, Israel
2009-2011: Instructor, Israeli Literature in Translation, University of Virginia
PUBLICATIONS
LOVE AND OTHER AILMENTS (book manuscript, in submissions process)
THE WORLDS WE THINK WE KNOW (book manuscript), Milkweed Press (2017)
PUBLICATIONS (short stories)
THE YIDDISH LESSON, in Tablet Magazine, 2022
SEEKING ATLANTIS, in Threepenny Review, 2022
MEMORIAL TO VENUS, in Salmagundi (forthcoming)
A RAZOR FOR THE CHILDREN, in Tablet Magazine, 2019
IF YOU DO NOT SHAVE THIS RABBIT, HE WILL GET STONED, in Chicago Tribune, 2019,
reprinted in Tel Aviv Review of Books, 2019
DAUGHTERS OF RESPECTABLE HOUSES, in Michigan Quarterly Review, 2017
INVASIONS, in The Colorado Review, 2015
A FAMINE IN THE LAND, in FICTION, 2015
THE FOUR FOODS, in The Los Angeles Review, 2015
THINKING IN THIRD PERSON, in Agni, 2014
INFECTIONS, in Moment Magazine, 2012
AMNON, in JewishFiction.net, 2012
THE NEXT VILONSKY, in Michigan Quarterly Review, 2012
FLOATING ON WATER, in Carve Magazine, 2012
SWAN STREET, in Bellingham Review, 2013
NAFTALI, in Jewcy, 2009
BARGABOURG REMEMBERS, in Mississippi Review, 2008
THE OTHER AIR, in Zeek Magazine, 2008
THE CEILING, in Covenant, 2007
THE EASEL, in Midstream, 2006
TWO PASSIONS FOR TWO PEOPLE, in Shenandoah, 2005
CONTAMINATION, in The Atlantic Monthly, 2005
THE HAT, in Tikkun, 1998
THE ENCIRCLING OF YEHUDA HAR-EVEN, in Jewish Education News, 1997
A TIME TO PLANT, in Midstream, 1994
PUBLICATIONS (non-fiction)
CREATURES NEITHER OF HEAVEN NOR OF EARTH, in Jewcy, 2018
BEN YEHUDA’S NIGHTMARE, in The Jewish Journal (Los Angeles), 2015
EATING LIKE VOLES, in The Jerusalem Post, 2015
PAY ATTENTION, YOUR NEW LIFE IS ABOUT TO BEGIN, in The Jerusalem Post, 2015
COULD TEL AVIV CURE MY SON’S DIABETES? in The Forward, 2015
SEEING CLEARLY IN TEL AVIV, in Jewish Journal, 2014
A LIZARD'S EYE VIEW OF WARTIME IN ISRAEL, in The Forward, 2014
UNDER FIRE IN TEL AVIV, accepted by NY Post, 2014
PUT ON A HELMET, in The Jerusalem Post, 2014
THE SILENT TREATMENT, in Jewish Journal, 2014
TALKING THE (JEWISH) TALK, in The Times of Israel (blog), 2014
AWARDS
2019, Choice Award, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Fiction (THE WORLDS WE THINK WE KNOW)
2019, Finalist, Nelson Algren Award ("If You Will Not Shave This Rabbit, He Will Get Stoned")
2018: Shortlisted for Chautauqua Prize (book: THE WORLDS WE THINK WE KNOW)
2015: Creative Writing Grant, Artist Committee, Israeli Ministry of Immigrant Absorption
2015: Honorable Mention (one of two) for 2014 Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers, Boulevard Magazine (“Daughters of Respectable Houses”)
2015: Shortlisted for Bosque Fiction Prize (“Vignette of the North”), judged by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
2015: Honorable Mention, Fiction Open Contest, Glimmer Train (“Daughters of Respectable Houses”)
2015: Semi-finalist, Iowa Short Fiction Award (“The Worlds We Think We Know”)
2014: Finalist, Very Short Fiction Award, Glimmer Train ("A Foggy Day")
2014: Semi-finalist, Sherwood Anderson Fiction Competition, Mid-American Review ("Invasions")
2013: Finalist, Fiction Open Contest, Glimmer Train ("As Far As The Eye Can See")
2013: Finalist, New Ohio Review Award for Fiction, judged by Stuart Dybek ("Thinking in Third Person")
2012: Finalist, Very Short Fiction Award, Glimmer Train ("The Four Foods")
2012: Winner, Editor's Choice Award, Carve Magazine ("Floating on Water")
2012: Finalist, Short Story Award for New Writers, Glimmer Train ("Flowers of Galilee")
2012: Winner, Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, Bellingham Review, judged by Robin Hemley ("Swan Street")
2012: Finalist, Short Story Award for New Writers, Glimmer Train ("The Worlds We Think We Know")
2011: Second Place Winner, short story contest, Moment Magazine, judged by Nicole Krauss ("Infections")
2008: Winner, Mississippi Review Prize, judged by Frederick Barthelme ("Bargabourg Remembers")
2008: Finalist, short story contest, Moment Magazine, judged by Jonathan Safran Foer ("Infections")
1998: Finalist, short story contest, Story Magazine, judged by Lois Rosenthal ("The Easel")
1997: Winner, short story contest for Jewish fiction, Jewish Education News, (“The Encircling of Yehuda Har-Even")
Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
Tel: 050-635-5559
E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
1998: MFA in fiction writing, Iowa Writers Workshop, University of Iowa
1994: B.A. In Jewish Studies, Oberlin College
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015-present: Translation editor (translator: Daniella Zamir)
Sample clients:
Dov Alfon (A Long Night in Paris)
Sarah Blau (The Others)
Michal Ben-Naftali (The Teacher)
Iddo Gefen (Jerusalem Beach)
Asaf Ashery (Simantov, 2019)
Keren Landsman (The Heart of the Circle)
Shay Aspril (The Judge)
Ilana Bernstein (Tomorrow We’ll Go to the Amusement Park)
Carmi Gillon and Yossi Shavit (Vicious Messiah)
Hila Blum (How to Love Your Daughter)
Noa Gutter Sagi (Missing Things)
2015-present: Freelance literary/developmental editor of novels and short story collections
2019-present: Script editor
Sample clients:
Keshet TV ("Detective Pita" series, 2018)
Shmuel Maoz (Screenplay: "Stardust," 2019)
Adam Sanderson (Screenplay: "The Victim," 2019)
Asaf Ashery ("Diamonds" TV series)
Ayala Sharot (screenplay synopsis, "No Witches in the Valley," 2020)
Ilan Aboody (screenplay subtitle editor, "Jerusalem," 2021)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fall, 2021: Instructor of Creative Writing, Ben Gurion University
Spring, 2020: Instructor of Fiction Writing, Tel Aviv University
2014-2019: Instructor of Fiction Writing, Bar Ilan University, Israel
2017-2019: Instructor of Fiction Writing, Ben Gurion University, Israel
2009-2011: Instructor, Israeli Literature in Translation, University of Virginia
PUBLICATIONS
LOVE AND OTHER AILMENTS (book manuscript, in submissions process)
THE WORLDS WE THINK WE KNOW (book manuscript), Milkweed Press (2017)
PUBLICATIONS (short stories)
THE YIDDISH LESSON, in Tablet Magazine, 2022
SEEKING ATLANTIS, in Threepenny Review, 2022
MEMORIAL TO VENUS, in Salmagundi (forthcoming)
A RAZOR FOR THE CHILDREN, in Tablet Magazine, 2019
IF YOU DO NOT SHAVE THIS RABBIT, HE WILL GET STONED, in Chicago Tribune, 2019,
reprinted in Tel Aviv Review of Books, 2019
DAUGHTERS OF RESPECTABLE HOUSES, in Michigan Quarterly Review, 2017
INVASIONS, in The Colorado Review, 2015
A FAMINE IN THE LAND, in FICTION, 2015
THE FOUR FOODS, in The Los Angeles Review, 2015
THINKING IN THIRD PERSON, in Agni, 2014
INFECTIONS, in Moment Magazine, 2012
AMNON, in JewishFiction.net, 2012
THE NEXT VILONSKY, in Michigan Quarterly Review, 2012
FLOATING ON WATER, in Carve Magazine, 2012
SWAN STREET, in Bellingham Review, 2013
NAFTALI, in Jewcy, 2009
BARGABOURG REMEMBERS, in Mississippi Review, 2008
THE OTHER AIR, in Zeek Magazine, 2008
THE CEILING, in Covenant, 2007
THE EASEL, in Midstream, 2006
TWO PASSIONS FOR TWO PEOPLE, in Shenandoah, 2005
CONTAMINATION, in The Atlantic Monthly, 2005
THE HAT, in Tikkun, 1998
THE ENCIRCLING OF YEHUDA HAR-EVEN, in Jewish Education News, 1997
A TIME TO PLANT, in Midstream, 1994
PUBLICATIONS (non-fiction)
CREATURES NEITHER OF HEAVEN NOR OF EARTH, in Jewcy, 2018
BEN YEHUDA’S NIGHTMARE, in The Jewish Journal (Los Angeles), 2015
EATING LIKE VOLES, in The Jerusalem Post, 2015
PAY ATTENTION, YOUR NEW LIFE IS ABOUT TO BEGIN, in The Jerusalem Post, 2015
COULD TEL AVIV CURE MY SON’S DIABETES? in The Forward, 2015
SEEING CLEARLY IN TEL AVIV, in Jewish Journal, 2014
A LIZARD'S EYE VIEW OF WARTIME IN ISRAEL, in The Forward, 2014
UNDER FIRE IN TEL AVIV, accepted by NY Post, 2014
PUT ON A HELMET, in The Jerusalem Post, 2014
THE SILENT TREATMENT, in Jewish Journal, 2014
TALKING THE (JEWISH) TALK, in The Times of Israel (blog), 2014
AWARDS
2019, Choice Award, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Fiction (THE WORLDS WE THINK WE KNOW)
2019, Finalist, Nelson Algren Award ("If You Will Not Shave This Rabbit, He Will Get Stoned")
2018: Shortlisted for Chautauqua Prize (book: THE WORLDS WE THINK WE KNOW)
2015: Creative Writing Grant, Artist Committee, Israeli Ministry of Immigrant Absorption
2015: Honorable Mention (one of two) for 2014 Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers, Boulevard Magazine (“Daughters of Respectable Houses”)
2015: Shortlisted for Bosque Fiction Prize (“Vignette of the North”), judged by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
2015: Honorable Mention, Fiction Open Contest, Glimmer Train (“Daughters of Respectable Houses”)
2015: Semi-finalist, Iowa Short Fiction Award (“The Worlds We Think We Know”)
2014: Finalist, Very Short Fiction Award, Glimmer Train ("A Foggy Day")
2014: Semi-finalist, Sherwood Anderson Fiction Competition, Mid-American Review ("Invasions")
2013: Finalist, Fiction Open Contest, Glimmer Train ("As Far As The Eye Can See")
2013: Finalist, New Ohio Review Award for Fiction, judged by Stuart Dybek ("Thinking in Third Person")
2012: Finalist, Very Short Fiction Award, Glimmer Train ("The Four Foods")
2012: Winner, Editor's Choice Award, Carve Magazine ("Floating on Water")
2012: Finalist, Short Story Award for New Writers, Glimmer Train ("Flowers of Galilee")
2012: Winner, Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, Bellingham Review, judged by Robin Hemley ("Swan Street")
2012: Finalist, Short Story Award for New Writers, Glimmer Train ("The Worlds We Think We Know")
2011: Second Place Winner, short story contest, Moment Magazine, judged by Nicole Krauss ("Infections")
2008: Winner, Mississippi Review Prize, judged by Frederick Barthelme ("Bargabourg Remembers")
2008: Finalist, short story contest, Moment Magazine, judged by Jonathan Safran Foer ("Infections")
1998: Finalist, short story contest, Story Magazine, judged by Lois Rosenthal ("The Easel")
1997: Winner, short story contest for Jewish fiction, Jewish Education News, (“The Encircling of Yehuda Har-Even")