Write yourself into being

Daniel Revach is a writer, translator, teacher, researcher, and peace-activist from Israel, currently living in the United Kingdom. His mother tongues are Hebrew and French, and he also speaks English, Spanish, Arabic, and German. While born and raised in Israel, he has lived in many countries, including Spain, Argentina, and Germany.

 

He has published poetry in English, Hebrew, Spanish, and Arabic in Israeli, British, American, and international journals and anthologies. In 2022, he published the poetry chapbook There Are Mountains in the Ocean, which explores the themes of life and death, love and conflict, and our relationship with nature.

 

Revach has won various awards and prizes for his writing. He is the first prize winner of the Oxford Digital Futures 2022 writing competition, and recipient of the 2023 Bogdani Award by the International Writers Association. He is also an honorary member of the Paz Pax organization of writers for world peace.

 

He serves as the UK National Director of the International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC). He is a member of the Oxford Poetry Society and the Oxford Poetry Library, and a founding member of OPL’s Drafting Table poetry group. He was the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Reuben College’s magazine The Reuby.

 

An Oxford-Reuben Scholar, Revach holds a Master of Science in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology from the University of Oxford, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Neuroscience and Linguistics from Ben Gurion University.

 

Besides poetry, he has published scientific papers on the neurocognitive basis of consciousness, as well as opinion articles in various Israeli newspapers, including Haaretz and YNet.