Hannan Hever is a professor of Hebrew literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published thirteen books about modern Hebrew literature, including the English language study, Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon (NYU, 2001). Hever serves as the editor for the Black Sheep fiction series of the Hakibutz-Hameuhad Publishing House. He provided editorial oversight and a scholarly afterward for The Collected Poems of Avraham Ben-Yitzhak (Ibis Editions, 2003).