Tama­rah Tou­vian was born in the US and raised in Israel where she com­plet­ed her stud­ies in Edu­ca­tion and bible stud­ies. She has been teach­ing Bible, Jew­ish stud­ies, Hebrew lan­guage and lit­er­a­ture, and aspects of Israeli cul­ture and soci­ety since 1995 to present. Tama­rah returned to the US in 2005 and cur­rent­ly resides in Con­necti­cut with her fam­i­ly. Her first book of poet­ry Path­ways was pub­lished in Hebrew in Israel in 2022, and she recent­ly pub­lished her sec­ond book of poet­ry Redemp­tion (2025) in Israel as well. Her works have appeared in a num­ber of print and online pub­li­ca­tions includ­ing the Con­necti­cut Bard Poet­ry Review and the Jew­ish Book Council.