Orit Gidali

Orit Gidali was born in 1974. Her first book of poetry, Twenty Girls to Envy Me, was published in 2003, and her next, Closing In, followed in 2006. Orit lives in Rehovot, is married to the poet Alex Ben-Ari, and is the mother of Hallel, Noa, Ofri, and Aner. Nora the Mind Reader is Orit’s first picture book. She wrote it for her six-year old daughter and says that it’s based on real magic. Orit also teaches at Tel Aviv.