Bio:Avital Gad-Cykman

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Avital Gad-Cykman's flash collection LIFE IN, LIFE OUT has been published by Matter Press.

She is the winner of Margaret Atwood Society Magazine prize for non-fiction, and The Hawthorne Citation prize for fiction. She is also a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and her stories and novel have been finalists in several contests, among them the Iowa Fiction Award for story collections.

Her work has appeared in W.W Norton's Flash Fiction International, The Best of Gigantic 2009-2014, LitroNY, McSweeney’s, CALYX Journal, Prism International, The Literary Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Stumbling and Raging, Politically Inspired Fiction Anthology (McAdam/Cage,) Best American Flash of the 21st Century Anthology, The Flash, Descant, Sex for America (Harper/Collins,) and other publications.

She was born and raised in Israel and lives in Brazil.