Tehila Hakimi

Fulbright International Writing Program, 2018, Writing, University of Iowa
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Tehila Hakimi is an award-winning Israeli poet and fiction writer. In 2018, she was selected as a Fulbright Fellow for the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her novel Hunting in America was published this year in the US, UK, and France.

Hunting in America is an award-winning, thrillingly subversive novel about an Israeli woman who moves to America, takes up hunting, and is drawn into a world of predator, prey, and dark attraction. With a poet’s eye and a hunter’s aim, Tehila Hakimi’s beguiling debut novel is a taut, twisty story about the everyday violence that haunts countries, and one woman’s tenuous grasp on reality.