Alex Epstein was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in 1971 and moved to Israel when he was eight. He is the author of seven works of fiction in Hebrew, and in 2003 was awarded the Israeli Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature. His work has appeared in the Iowa Review, Words Without Borders, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Tel Aviv. Blue Has No South and Lunar Savings Time, his recent collections of short-short stories, are available in English from Clockroot Books.
