Tehila Hakimi is an award-winning Hebrew poet and fiction writer. She was a participant of the 2018 Fulbright International Writing Program Fellowship in The University of Iowa. For her first poetry collection, WE'LL WORK TOMORROW she received the 2014 Prize for Emerging Poets by the Ministry of Culture and the 2015 Bernstein Prize for Literature. She published a graphic novel, IN THE WATER, and a collection of novellas, COMPANY, with Resling (2018).

She was awarded the Yehoshua Rabinowitz Foundation Prize for Literature and the National Library’s Pardes Scholarship for writers in 2019. Hakimi also received the 2018 Levi Eshkol Prize for Hebrew Writers. Her poems and short stories have been translated into German, English, Spanish, Croatian, Romanian, Chinese, Italian and Macedonian. Hakimi is a mechanical engineer by profession.