Orna Coussin (born in Scotland, 1967) is a Tel Avivian writer, essayist, and a writers’ mentor. She has published in Hebrew ten books of essays and stories to date. Her personal essay “How to Be a Girl” (translated by Jessica Cohen) is included in the Fall/Winter issue of Epiphany Literary Journal, NYC.

Coussin received the Prime Minister award for Hebrew writers (2009) and an Excellence in Teaching award at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2020) where she has been teaching critical writing for more than a decade. She lives in Tel Aviv with her partner Michal and their two teenage daughters.