Hagai Dagan was born in Kibbutz Ein Hamifratz, Israel,
in 1964. He studied at Tel Aviv and Freiburg Universities and received a PhD in
Jewish thought and philosophy from Tel Aviv University. Dagan has taught at
many academic institutions, including Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv
University, the Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo, the Sam Spiegel Film and
Television School and Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem. At present, he is the
head of the Jewish thought program in the interdisciplinary department at Sapir
College. Dagan was awarded the Prime Minister's Prize (2007) and the
Geffen Prize for the best fantasy book (2013).