![]() ![]() Gili is also the founder of the social poetry movement, Apples Etc. She honed her skills in various workshops and was first published at the age of 21. Her major poetry experience began at the age of 13, following the second Lebanon War in Israel. She soon began learning other languages, including Spanish, Romanian and French, and developed an interest in linguistics. She picked up English as a native tongue despite it not being spoken at her home, and her parents encouraged this by playing her music and shows in English. ![]() Gili was born in Kfar Saba, a city near Tel Aviv, in Israel. ![]() Selections from the Body of Work series were published in Issue #4 of Skin to Skin magazine in December 2013. In 2013, Gili's poem "More or Less" was published in the online literary journal Saudades. Gili is published in several magazines and collections on and offline, and in a poem anthology that celebrates Leonard Cohen's work. Gili has studied literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and creative writing at the School of the Arts Institute in Chicago and at Emerson College in Boston. Born and raised near Tel Aviv, Israel, she uses dense and rich language to create striking poetry that explores themes such as love and relationships and queer life. Gili Estlin "G.E." Hirsch is a poet, playwright, screenwriter, and author. ![]()
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