Mati Shemoelof, born in Israel in 1972, lives in Berlin. In Israel, he has published numerous volumes of poetry as well as a short story collection, a volume of essays and a novel. In Germany, he published the poetry collection “Baghdad | Haifa | Berlin” (AphorismA Verlag 2019), and in Hebrew the novel “Der Preis” (Pardes Verlag 2021). He is a co-founder of the literary group “Poetic Hafla” and hosted the four-day literary project “The Festival of the Middle East Union” in 2021 as part of the group “Anu: Jews and Arabs Writing in Berlin”.