Miryam is a former New Yorker who has lived in Israel for nearly thirty years. Her collection of short stories, SNAFU & Other Stories, was published in 2014, and a novel, Make it Concrete, came out in 2019. Make it Concrete was a Finalist in the First Novel category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, 2020. An early unpublished novel, The Heights, was nominated for the Pushcart Press's Editor's Book Award. Sivan has published short fiction in numerous journals in the US and UK, and two of her stories were dramatized in NY and London. She teaches literature and writing at the University of Haifa in the Galilee.
