Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood (Steerforth Press and Broadway Books) and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century (Yale University Press), a biography of Taha Muhammad Ali. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Nation, the Washington Post, the TLS, Raritan, the Boston Globe, New York Newsday, Tin House, the Jewish Quarterly, and on the World Service of the BBC.

Formerly a film critic for the American Prospect and the Jerusalem Post, she is now writing (together with Peter Cole) a volume about the Cairo Geniza for Schocken/Nextbook. She has been a visiting professor at Wesleyan University and Middlebury College and the Franke Fellow at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center. One of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions, she lives in Jerusalem.