About

Hillel Fuks Damron

Hillel F. Damron was born in kibbutz Hephzibah in northern Israel to parents who survived the Holocaust. After graduating from high school he worked for a year with inner-city kids in Haifa, then joined the army & became an officer in an elite paratroop unit. He experienced war & was wounded in battle.

After a stint as an Air Marshal on El Al Israeli Airlines in the heydays of airplanes hijacking, he studied the “Art and Technique” of filmmaking at the “London International Film School.” His final short film at the school, The Petition, represented the “British Arts Council” as an official entry to the film festival in Tours, France.

Back in Israel, he joined 348 IDF reserve officers who signed the famed letter to PM Begin that gave birth to the “Peace Now” movement. After paying his dues in many aspects of film production, he wrote & directed documentaries for Israeli Television, numerous video shorts & magazines, and directed the feature film, titled “Hasamba” (AKA “Crime Doesn’t Neigh,” IMDb). For five years, he was the head of the Video Production Department of the Histadrut.

He wrote film reviews & articles for “Iton 77,” published short stories – one of which received a “Fantasia 2000 Magazine” award – & a Sci-fi novel: The War of the Sexes (Milchemet Haminim); referred to by the American “Science-Fiction Studies” as “the best of all Israeli Sci-fi literature.” His screenplay, Saint Daniel of L.A., was awarded an Honorable Mention in “Writer’s Digest Magazine” writing competition. His short story, The Messiah, was published in “Sambatyon,” a journal of Jewish writing.

He is now an American citizen, as well as an Israeli citizen, & resides permanently in Sacramento, California. He is twice divorced, & a father to two sons. For three years, he was the Executive Director of the Hillel at UC Davis & Sacramento State. He is the author of the novels “Very Narrow Bridge,” published September 2011, & “Unidentified Woman,” published August 2012. His speculative novel “Sex War One,” an adaptation of his Hebrew Sci-fi book, was published in English in December 2014. He is the first-place winner of Moment Magazine‘s 2011 Memoir Contest Award, and the second-place winner of the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation 2021 Short Fiction Contest.

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