Yael Hacohen is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. She has an MFA in Poetry from New York University, where she was an NYU Veterans Workshop Fellow, International Editor at Washington Square Literary Review, and Editor-in-Chief at Nine Lines Literary Review. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Praire Schooner, The Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Every Day Poets Magazine, Nine Lines, and many more. She was a finalist in the 2015 Glimmer Train Very Short Story Competition, the 2015 Consequence Prize in Poetry, and the 2013 MSLexia Poetry Prize for Women.