Maya Savir

Maya Savir was born in Tel Aviv in 1973 and grew up in Jerusalem, Ottawa and New York. She has a BA in philosophy and psychology from Tel Aviv University and has worked in human resources. Savir has published adult fiction, non-fiction and children’s books and has received the Publishers Association’s Gold Book Prize for In a Word Gone Wrong (2015). She lives in Tel Aviv.

Photo by: Tamar Karavan