Rita Kogan is a poet, translator and writer. She was born in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), Russia in 1976 and immigrated to Israel in 1990. She lives in Tel Aviv. Kogan published  three poetry books: "A license to misspell" (2015, Elrom publishing house), "A horse in a skirt" (2018, Iton 77 publishing house), "Mal De Terre" (2022, Iton 77 publishing house).  She translated four books from 19th century Russian classic literature to Hebrew: "The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights" by Alexander Pushkin, "The Scarlet Flower" by Sergey Aksakov, "The Town in the Snuff-box" by Vladimir Odoyevsky and "The Black Hen or The Underground Inhabitants" by Antony Pogorelsky (all by Kadima publishing house). Her first book in prose "Stoneland '' with 11 short stories and novellas was published in 2021 by Kinneret, Zmora, Dvir publishing house. Awards: First Prize in the 2016 Haaretz short story competition with the short story “The third sin”, honorable Mention for "A Horse in a Skirt" in 2018, presidential First Lady/Gardner Simon commendations for Hebrew poetry, Levi Eshkol Literary Award in 2022.