Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation, the Washington Post, and the Times Literary Supplement, and on the BBC. One of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions, she lives in Jerusalem.
The prospect of writing My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century filled me with a fairly cavernous sense of dread.