Evan Fal­l­en­berg is an author and trans­la­tor of films, plays, and books, includ­ing Meir Shalev’s A Pigeon and a Boy, win­ner of the 2007 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award for fic­tion. He is the recip­i­ent of the Amer­i­can Library Asso­ci­a­tion Bar­bara Git­tings Stonewall Book Award for Lit­er­a­ture, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fic­tion, and oth­er awards in the Unit­ed States and Israel. In addi­tion to writ­ing and trans­lat­ing, he teach­es lit­er­ary trans­la­tion and fic­tion at Bar-Ilan Uni­ver­si­ty in Tel Aviv and is fac­ul­ty co-direc­tor of Ver­mont Col­lege of Fine Arts Inter­na­tion­al MFA in Cre­ative Writ­ing & Lit­er­ary Trans­la­tion. He is a grad­u­ate of George­town Uni­ver­si­ty and serves as an advis­er to the Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture. He lives in Acre, Israel, where he owns a bou­tique hotel and arts res­i­den­cy center.