Alex Epstein was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in 1971 and moved to Israel at the age of eight.
He is the author of three collections of short stories and three novels; his work has been translated into French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, and Italian, among other languages. His short-short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in English in Words without Borders, the Iowa Review, Rhino, Zeek, and Natural Bridge.
In 2003, he was awarded Israel’s Prime Minister’s Prize for Literature. In 2007, he participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He writes literary reviews for several newspapers and teaches creative writing in Tel Aviv.
His short story collection from Clockroot Books to be published in the U.S. is titled Blue Has No South.
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