Ayelet Gundar-Goshen was born in Israel in 1982. She has written or co-written a number of screenplays and TV series and has produced short films that have been selected for film festivals in Israel and around the world. She has won the Gottlieb Prize for Young Screenwriters, and the Berlin Today Award for her short film Batman at the Checkpoint. One Night, Markovitch, her first novel, won the Sapir Prize for Debut Fiction.