Maya Arad

Maya Arad (born January 25, 1971) is an American-based Israeli writer,. having been collected by libraries worldwide.

Maya Arad was born in Rishon LeZion in Israel in 1971 and grew up in Kibbutz Nahal-Oz at age 11 she returned to her city of birth. As most Israelis she served in the Israeli Defense Forces. She served in the Education Corps where she met her future husband Reviel Netz, a poet and a noted Israeli scholar of the history of pre-modern mathematics, who is currently a professor of Classics and of Philosophy at Stanford University. The couple has two daughters.

She graduated in classical literature and linguistics from the Tel-Aviv University and has a Ph.D. in linguistics from the London University. She taught at Harvard University the Geneva University and at the Drama department of Stanford University. She is currently a visiting scholar, as a writer-in-residence, at the Taube center for Jewish studies of Stanford

Her first novel "Another Place, a Foreign City" (Tel Aviv 2003), written in verse on the model of Eugene Onegin was adapted as a musical by the Tel-Aviv based Cameri Theater.

In 2005 she published "Roots and Patterns: Hebrew Morpho-Syntax" (Springer 2005) a study in the regularity of the Hebrew verb system. The same year she published "The Righteous Forsaken" a play in verse, as an adaptation of Griboedov’s "Woe from Wit" (Tel Aviv 2005). In 2006, she also authored the play Suspended.

More recently she published "Seven Moral Failings", a novel (Tel Aviv 2006), "Family Pictures", three short stories (Tel Aviv 2008), "Positions of Stress: Essays on Israeli Literature between Sound and History" (Tel Aviv 2008), "Short Story Master" (Tel Aviv 2009) and "Suspected Dementia" (Tel Aviv 2011). She published the "Lady of Kazan" a novel in 2015 and "Behind the Mountain" in 2016.