Dina Ripsman Eylon
Editor-in-Chief, Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Biography
Dina Ripsman Eylon, who has her Ph.D. in Post-biblical Hebrew Language and Literature from the University of Toronto, was a Lecturer in Modern Hebrew at the University of Toronto. Dina has written extensively on literary theory, feminism, and religion. She is the editor-in-chief and publisher of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Her monograph Reincarnation in Jewish Mysticism and Gnosticism was published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2003.
Dina’s poems were published in Convergence: Poets for Peace, Kinesis, Iranian Jewish Chronicle, Verse Afire and in the anthologies Enchanted Crossroads and Stress(full) Sister(hood). Dina was selected to participate as a guest poet at the 2011 Semana Poetica, held annually by Dickinson College. She was the founder and chair of the Vaughan Poets’ Circle, a progressive group of poets. Her published poetry collections include Songs of Love and Misgivings (First Edition, Beret Days Press, 2006); an edited chapbook of political poetry Waging Change: Vaughan Poets Engage in Politics (Poetry Friendly Press, 2007); Kav Ha-ofek Beguf Rishon [On the Horizon in the First Person (Hebrew) (Tel-Aviv: Eked Publishing, 2011), The Heart of the City and Other Urban Poems (Sisterhood Press, 2011) and a bilingual poetry collection Until Borders Collapse (Sisterhood Press, 2017). Her poetry collections are available at www.sisterhoodpress.com
Published Works
Songs of Love and Misgivings (2nd revised and enlarged edition; Sisterhood Press, 2017)
Until Borders Collapse: A Bilingual Poetry Collection (Sisterhood Press, 2017)
Semana Poetica October 23, 2011 – October 27,2011, Dina Ripsman Eylon (bilingual edition; Dickinson College, 2011)
The Heart of the City and Other Urban Poems (Sisterhood Press, 2011)
On the Horizon in the First Person. [Hebrew] (Tel Aviv: Eked, 2011) Digital edition is available free by request.
In the Heart of the City (Limited edition; book art; Sisterhood Press, 2010)
Waging Change: Vaughan Poets Engage in Politics (Editor; Friendly Poetry Press, 2007)
Songs of Love and Misgivings (First Edition, Beret Days Press, 2006)
Stress (full) Sister (hood). (Anthology, with Si Transken, Kate Tillichek, Soni B., and Tamar Eylon; Sisterhood Press, 2001)
Links to Sample Works
- “Kortright Haikus,” Vaughan Poetry Map, April 2016.
- Vaughan Poetry Map
- Sisterhood Press
