Tehila Hakimi is an award-winning Hebrew poet and fiction writer. Her debut novel Hunting in America was described by the TLS as "a study in cultural absorption: how violence enters the body and rewires the mind," praised by Libération for "the quiet precision of prose that aims straight at the breaking point," and named by Vogue France as one of the best translated novels of 2025. The novel was called "an enigmatic puzzle of a novel with a wry, mesmerizing voice" by LitHub.

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A fiction writer and poet, Hakimi is a Jewish Book Council Award winner.
She was a participant in the 2018 Fulbright International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and a 2022 fellow of the Malba Writers' Residency in Buenos Aires. She is a recipient of the Bernstein Prize for Literature for her first poetry collection. Hakimi's short prose and poems have been published in translation in Asymptote, World Literature Today, and The Poetry Review, among others. She is also the recipient of the 2019 National Library Pardes Scholarship for writers and the 2018 Levi Eshkol Memorial Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Writers. The Hebrew edition of Hunting in America was an Israeli bestseller, chosen as an Ha'aretz Best Book of 2023, and longlisted for the Sapir Prize.