She soon began learning other languages, including Spanish, Romanian and French, and developed an interest in linguistics. She picked up English as a native tongue despite it not being spoken at her home, and her parents encouraged this by playing her music and shows in English. Gili was born in Kfar Saba, a city near Tel Aviv, in Israel. Selections from the Body of Work series were published in Issue #4 of Skin to Skin magazine in December 2013. In 2013, Gili's poem 'More or Less' was published in the online literary journal Saudades. Gili is published in several magazines and collections on and offline, and in a poem anthology that celebrates Leonard Cohen's work. Gili has studied literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and creative writing at the School of the Arts Institute in Chicago and at Emerson College in Boston. Born and raised near Tel Aviv, Israel, she uses dense and rich language to create striking poetry that explores themes such as love and relationships and queer life. She hopes to publish more novels or to work within the pop culture industry - truly a dream come true - and is always hoping to add a Great Dane to her growing menagerie.Gili Estlin 'G.E.' Hirsch is a poet, playwright, screenwriter, and author.

She is an enthused pursuer of all things animals, pop culture, and literature. She currently works as a Freelance translator, but maintains a strict work day to remain ready for a hard day’s work doing the job she dreams of.

She is hard working, a fast learner, and is known for throwing herself into whatever project she is working on - so long as her heart in it. Gili has ample experience in content writing and editing. She speaks both languages as her native tongues.

She also has a translation certificate from Emerson College (Hebrew to English), and from Tel Aviv University (English to Hebrew). Her poetry and short stories have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines. Gili Estlin Hirsch is an Honors graduate of the School of the Arts Institute in Chicago (SAIC), where she studied poetry, writing, film and television, funded by a scholarship from the Chicago Poetry Foundation. She has published two books, “ANNA” and “Body of Work”, and has worked in the fields of copywriting, editing, and reading, for publishing houses translating, as a freelancer and for large companies and content writer, for several leading magazines as well as numerous private clients, publications, and firms, as an employee and as a commissioned writer. Gili Estlin Hirsch is a poet, author, content writer, translator, copywriter, editor and screenplay writer whose home base is in Israel.

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