12 Facts About Yvonne Green

Yvonne Green was an English poet, translator, writer and barrister.

Yvonne Green was an Orthodox Jew, of Bukharian Jewish ancestry.

Yvonne Green attended the Henrietta Barnett School and then went on to study law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Yvonne Green was Poet-in-Residence to Spiro's Ark from 2000 to 2003, Norwood Ravenswood in 2006, Casa Shalom from 2007 to 2008, Jewish Woman's Aid from 2007 to 2009 and from 2013, to Baroness Scotland of Asthall's Global Foundation To End Domestic Violence.

On 3 July 2017 Yvonne Green read out Bejan Matur's poems at "The Kurdish Sisterhood" event organised by the Exiled Lit Cafe at the Poetry Cafe.

Yvonne Green convened two monthly groups, one at Hendon Library called "Wall of Words" and the second at JW3, Europe's largest Jewish cultural centre, called "Taking the Temperature".

Yvonne Green regularly gave readings and talks on translating Semyon Lipkin.

Louise Gluck gave a rare interview to Yvonne Green which was published in PN Review 196 in December 2010.

In 2008 Yvonne Green wrote "Reflections on a Visit to Shderot" that appeared on the Freedom in a Puritan Age website.

Five days after Operation Cast Lead, Yvonne Green entered the Gaza Strip to see the situation for herself after hearing the media reports throughout the war.

Yvonne Green then wrote a number of pieces from her experience.

Yvonne Green wrote a report entitled "A Verbatim Note on a Visit to Gaza".