Edith Covensky

Edith Covensky (; born April 14, 1945, Idit Ḳovensḳi in Romanian) is a Hebrew poet living in the United States and senior lecturer in Hebrew and Israeli Studies at Wayne State University. She has authored 34 books of poetry, in Hebrew, bilingually in Hebrew and English, she went to "Maalot Ha'neveem" ("Steps of the Prophets") elementary school, and continued high school at Alliance Francaise Israelite (Kol Israel Haverim) where she focused on Hebrew and French literature.

She is a member of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew, and of the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel; editor of Pseifas, an Israeli literary Journal dedicated to classical and Hebrew poetry; and a member of the Association of Alexander Dumas the Father, located in Paris, France.

Covensky started writing Hebrew poetry in 1981, publishing her first poem "Small Blessings" (Hebrew: "Al Hassadim Ktanim") in Bitzaron, a distinguished literary journal issued by New York University, in 1982. She has published to date 34 poetry books. Her numerous individual poems have been published in Israel, Canada, and in the United States.

French Professor Michael Giordano, prefaced her poetry in the volume In the Beginning (Hebrew: Breeah; French: Genese), Gvanim, Tel-Aviv, 2017. Jeffrey L. Covensky prefaced Life as Fiction (Gvanim, 2017.) A Hebrew version was published in Pseifas, 2017.

Critical response Covensky's poetry has been the subject of the volume Under a Silky Sky: The Symbolist Poetry of Edith Covensky, written by scholar and literary critic . He described her work in a 1996 review as "lyrical poetry", praising it for its "esthetic dexterity" in "composition, theme, and metaphorical artistry". In a 2012 review he described her work as "metaphysical poetry". On the Existence of Love (2011, Hebrew-English) Allusion to Auschwitz (2011, Hebrew), edited by Professor Hanna Yaoz Kest. Van Gelder Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. Matters of Sand (2012, Hebrew-English) On the Edge of Water (2012, Hebrew-English) Microcosm (2014, Hebrew) Life as Fiction (2017, Hebrew-English; translated into English by Edith Covensky) Genesis (2017, Hebrew-French; translated into French by Collette Salem; Spanish translation by Marta Teitelbaum and Luisa Futoransky; Published by Leviathan, Argentina, 2019) Identities (2019, Romanian; published by Detectiv Literar, Bucharest; translated from Hebrew into Romanian by Menachem Falek) (This book consists of selected poems from Microcosm, originally in Hebrew, published by Gvanim, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2014) Portrait of a Poet (2020, Hebrew), Beth-Eked Sfarim Publishers. Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Published Hebrew-English dialogue book (Conversations for the Study of Hebrew-English), entitled: Where to Go? Jerusalem: Rubin Mass Publishers, 2017.