Photo Credit: Ella Pennington

Tom Haviv

b. 1987

Current City, State, Country

New York, New York, USA

Birth City, State, Country

Tel Aviv, Israel

Biography

Tom Haviv is a writer, artist,and publisher based in New York. Tom is the cofounder and creative director of Ayin Press. His debut book of poetry, Flag of No Nation, was published in December 2019 by Jewish Currents Press, and his first children’s book, Woven, is out now. He is also the founder of Somewhere, Aora Studios, and the Hamsa Flag Project.

What is the relationship between Judaism and/or Jewish culture and your poetry?

I think parts of it are well-explained in the introduction to “Ladder” written by Arielle Angel and in my essay on The Hamsa Flag Project, originally published by PROTOCOLS in 2016, as well as throughout my book of poetry, A Flag of No Nation.

Published Works

Poetry
A Flag of No Nation (Jewish Currents Press, 2019)

Children’s Books
The Porcupine Prince (Somewhere Books, 2023)
Woven (Somewhere Books, 2018)

Author Site

Author Site

Links to Sample Works

Current Title

Publisher, Creative Director, & Cofounder at Ayin Press

Education

Pomona College, BA
Brooklyn College MFA

Subject Matter

Aging, Childhood, Cultural Identity, Death, Diaspora, Documentary Poetics, Family, Feminism, Friendship, Gender, Grief & Elegy, History, Intergenerational Trauma, Israel/Palestine, Jewish Mysticism, Jewishness, Loss, Love, Multidisciplinary, Mythology, Narrative, Other, Politics, Translation, Trauma, Visual Art, War, Whiteness