Marwan Makhoul is a Palestinian poet, born in 1979 in the village of Boquai'a, Upper Galilee, to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother. He works in engineering as a managing director of a construction company. He has several works published in poetry, prose and drama, including collections of poetry: Hunter of Daffodils, Land of the Sad Passiflora, Verses the Poems Forgot with Me, where is my mom, and A Letter from the Last Man. And his first play: This isn’t Noah’s Ark. Makhoul won several prizes and awards of which the prize of best playwright in The Acre Theatre Festival in 2009 for his first play. His poetry has appeared worldwide in Arabic publications, and several of his poems have been set to music. Selections from his poetry have been translated into English, Turkish, Italian, German, French, Hebrew, Irish, Serbian and Hindi.