The World Between - Zeeva Bukai

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Bukai, Zeeva: - Zeeva Bukai was born in Israel, raised in New York City and the author of a previous novel, The Anatomy of Exile. Her honors include a Fellowship at the New York Center for Fiction and residencies at Hedgebrook, and Byrdcliffe Artist In Residence program. Her stories are forthcoming in the anthology Smashing the Tablets: A Radical Retelling of the Hebrew Bible, and have appeared in Carve Magazine, Pithead Chapel, the Lilith anthology, Frankly Feminist: Stories by Jewish Women, December Magazine where her story The Abandoning (an early version of the first chapter of her novel, The Anatomy of Exile, was selected by Lily King for the Curt Johnson Prose Prize, The Master's Review, where she was the recipient of the Fall Fiction prize selected by Anita Felicelli, Mcsweeny's Quarterly Concern, Image Journal, Jewishfiction.net, Women's Quarterly Journal, and the Jewish Quarterly. Her work has been featured on the Stories on Stage Davis podcast. She studied Acting at Tel-Aviv University, and holds a BFA in Theater and an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College. She is the Assistant Director of Academic Support at SUNY Empire State University and lives in Brooklyn with her family.