Avia Tadmor was born in Israel. She received a BA from Harvard University and is currently completing her MFA in poetry and literary translation at Columbia University, where she also teaches undergraduate writing. Her work appears in or is forthcoming from Crab Orchard Review, Apogee, The Adroit Journal, Fugue, Nashville Review, Asymptote, Mantis, and elsewhere. In 2016, she was named a finalist for the Indiana Review Poetry Prize.