Nizan Weisman was born in
Haifa in 1956, and lives there with his family. He first studied philosophy and
history of theater at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and later graduated
in economy and financial accounting. For the last 30 years he has worked as a lecturer
and business consultant for Israeli and global companies. Weisman's short
stories have been published in a number of literary periodicals in Israel. Rosemary
Woods, his first collection of stories, won the Haifa Foundation Award
(2006) and was a finalist for the prestigious Haaretz Competition for Debut
Fiction (2007). Israeli Breakfast is his second collection of stories.