Ayelet Amit­tay is a poet and psy­chi­atric nurse prac­ti­tion­er in Ore­gon. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Michi­gan Quar­ter­ly Review, Pleiades, Tupe­lo Quar­ter­ly, and oth­ers. She received fel­low­ships from the Yid­dish Book Cen­ter and the Martha’s Vine­yard Insti­tute of Cre­ative Writing.