Literary Modiin - January 2026 Author Event

About the authors:

Merav Fima is a writer, translator, and literary scholar currently based in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of the short story collection Late Blossoms (Vine Leaves Press, October 2025) and of the forthcoming Sephardic migration novel The Rose of Thirteen Petals and the Pomegranate Tree (Running Wild Press, 2026). She holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Monash University and her work has appeared in anthologies and literary journals worldwide, including: Meanjin Quarterly; Parchment; Poetica Magazine; and The Australian Book Review. Mikhail Iossel was born in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia), where he worked as an electromagnetic engineer and a security guard at the Central Park of Culture and Leisure and belonged to an organization of samizdat writers before immigrating to the United States in 1986. He is the author, most recently, of Sentence, a collection of one-sentence stories. His other books in English are Love…