Admiel Kosman was born in Haifa, Israel, and has lived in Germany since 2003. He is the author of nine poetry books and the bilingual Hebrew-English selection, Approaching You in English: Selected Poems of Admiel Kosman in English (translated by Lisa Katz with Shlomit Naim-Naor) and four academic books on Talmud and Midrash, two of which have appeared in English: Men's World: Reading Masculinity in Jewish Stories in a Spiritual Context and Gender and Dialogue in the Rabbinic Prism. Kosman is a religious studies professor at Potsdam University, and the academic director of the Geiger Rabbinical Seminary, Berlin. A comprehensive interview was published by Poetry International Rotterdam in 2011.