page_title: Efrat Mishori
section_title: Other activities
hierarchical_section_title: Efrat Mishori / Other activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Israeli poet Efrat Mishori on a motorbike
context_page_description: Efrat Mishori is an Israeli poet, essayist, performance artist, and filmmaker. She is the recipient of the Prime Minister's Award and the Landau Award.
context_section_description: In 1996, Mishori produced and performed the one-woman show "I Am Poetry's Model", based on her poems, and an early staging of spoken word performing in Israel. The show was accompanied by Video art and movement, and was described in the press as "groundbreaking" and "pioneering".
  Mishori taught writing and performance at the School of Visual Arts in Jerusalem, led workshops at universities, and was Visiting Author for the Ministry of Education. She also edits poetry collections, and is an editorial board member for the literature journal NanoPoetica. In 2011, Mishori started the literary salon "Theater of the Traveling Text", through which she leads workshops and meetings with women poets, authors and lecturers. She is considered a leader of the "neo-avant-garde" poetry movement in Israel.
  Together with the literature and culture magazine Iton 77, Mishori founded "Low Flame 77", a publishing house dedicated to women's poetry, and defined by Mishori as "a laboratory for developing women's poetry". Two books have been published to date, by the poets Tal Cohen Bechor and Revital Mitki.
  In 2014, Mishori founded a film production company with filmmaker Dana Goldberg, Gypsycam, for experimental and independent cinema. They produced several short films together. In 2018, they released the feature film Death of a Poetess, starring Evgenia Dodina and Samira Saraya.
  In 2018, Mishori received the Landau Arts Award.
caption: Photo by Dana Goldberg
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