My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness

Adina Hoffman, the author of My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century (Yale University Press) is also the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood (Broadway Books) She is one of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions, a small press that publishes translations from Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, French, and the other languages of the Levant. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation, the Washington Post, the Times Literary Supplement, the Boston Globe, New York Newsday, Raritan, Tin House, the Jewish Quarterly, and on the World Service of the BBC. She and Peter Cole are currently writing about the Cairo Geniza.