Tami Shem-Tov, born in Israel in 1969, is a prize-winning writer for children and young adults. For 20 years she worked as a journalist. Now she is concentrating in writing books, teaching in Haifa University and holding meetings with children all over the country.

She likes writing biographies, stories based on true events and historical novel.

Her books won the Andersen Honor Citation (2014), the Bialik Prize (2014), the Israeli Public Libraries Award (2014), the Lea Goldberg Prize (2013), the DafDaf Prize (2012), the prime minister’s Prize (2011), the German Children’s Literature Award (2010), the Yad Vashem Prize (2007), and Ze’ev Prize (1999, 2008).

She lives with her two daughters in Tel-Aviv.