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, My Happiness won the UK's 2010 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize. Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, written with Peter Cole, is forthcoming from Schocken / Nextbook. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Nation, the Washington Post, the TLS, Raritan, the Boston Globe, New York Newsday, Tin House, and on the World Service of the BBC.

Formerly a film critic for the American Prospect and the Jerusalem Post, Hoffman has been a visiting professor at Wesleyan University and Middlebury College as well as the Franke Fellow at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center. She is one of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions and lives in Jerusalem.