Bat­nadiv HaKar­mi is a writer, visu­al artist and edi­tor. She is the author of the chap­book, The Love of Mor­tal Beings (Kel­say Books, 2023), and her work has appeared in numer­ous lit­er­ary jour­nals, includ­ing Poet Lore, Poet­ry Inter­na­tion­al, Ilan­ot Review and Arc Poet­ry Mag­a­zine. 

Bat­nadiv stud­ied paint­ing at the New York Stu­dio School, and holds an MA in Cre­ative Writ­ing from Bar Ilan Uni­ver­si­ty. She is the recip­i­ent of the Andrea Mori­ah Poet­ry Prize, and was short­list­ed for the Bride­port Prize for flash fic­tion, and Har­bor Review’s Jew­ish Women’s Poet­ry Prize. Born in Cal­i­for­nia, she cur­rent­ly resides in Jerusalem with her hus­band and four young children.