Amira Hess (Hebrew: אמירה הס; 13 March 1943 – 1 December 2023) was an Israeli poet and artist.
Arriving in Israel in 1951 to a refugee transit camp, she then made her home in Jerusalem, where she lived for the rest of her life.
Her other volumes of poetry in Hebrew include Two Horses by the Light Line, The Information Eater, Yovel, and There is no Real Woman in Israel.
Some individual poems have been translated into English, French,[1] German, Greek, Spanish and Russian.
A collection of about seventy poems under the title Between Boulders of Basalt and Foundation, was translated into English by Shay K.