Yvonne Green, born 1957 in London to a
multi-lingual Asian family, practised law, and then published her first
collection, Boukhara, winner of the
2007 Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition. Her second, The Assay, was also published in Ivrit
by Am Oved as Hanisoo-yi, having won
funds for translation from Celia Atkin and Lady Gavron. Her third, After Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin, was the
Winter 2011 Poetry Book Society's Translation Choice. Her fourth, Honoured, was Winter 2015 Poetry Book
Society Recommendation.