Avital Gad-Cykman grew up in Israel, lives in Brazil and writes mainly in English. She is the author of the flash collection "Life In, Life Out", published by Matter Press and the flash and story collection "Light Reflection Over Blues", published by Ravenna Press. Her work has appeared in The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Ambit (UK), The Literary Review, CALYX Journal, Glimmer Train, McSweeney’s Quarterly, Prism International, Michigan Quarterly Review and elsewhere. Other stories have been featured in anthologies such as W.W. Norton's Flash Fiction International, Sonder Press's Best Small Fictions 2020, Politically Inspired Fiction, and The Best of Gigantic. Her flashes have been twice listed in Best of the WEB, Wigleaf. She is the winner of Margaret Atwood Studies Magazine Prize and first placed in The Hawthorne Citation Short Story Contest. Her story collections were finalists for Iowa Fiction award. She holds a PhD in English Literature with a focus on women authors, gender, minorities and trauma studies.
