{"id":15920,"name":"Ahmad Almallah and Huda Fakhreddine","url":"","description":"Ahmad Almallah<\/strong> is a poet from Palestine. His first book of poems Bitter English<\/em> is now available in the Phoenix Poets Series from the University of Chicago Press. His new book Border Wisdom<\/em> is now available from Winter Editions. He received the Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing, and his set of poems \u201cRecourse,\u201d won the Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. Some of his poems and other writing appeared in Jacket2<\/em>, Track\/\/Four<\/em>, All Roads will lead You Home<\/em>, Apiary<\/em>, Supplement<\/em>, SAND<\/em>, Michigan Quarterly Review<\/em>, Making Mirrors: Righting\/Writing by Refugees<\/em>, Cordite Poetry Review<\/em>, Birmingham Poetry Review<\/em>, Great River Review<\/em>, Kenyon Review<\/em>, Poetry<\/em> and American Poetry Review<\/em>. Some of his work in Arabic has appeared in Al-Arabi Al-Jadid<\/em> and Al-Quds Al-Arabi<\/em>. His English works have been translated into Arabic, Russian and Telugu. He is currently Artist in Residence in Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania.\r\n
<\/br>\r\nHuda Fakhreddine<\/strong> is a writer and translator. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition<\/em> (Brill, 2015) and The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice<\/em> (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry<\/em> (Routledge, 2023). Her book of creative nonfiction titled Zaman saghir taht shams thaniya<\/em> (A Small Time Under a Different Sun<\/em>) was published by Dar al-Nahda, Beirut in 2019. She is the co-translator of Lighthouse for the Drowning<\/em> (BOA editions, 2017), The Sky That Denied Me<\/em> (University of Texas Press, 2020), Come Take a Gentle Stab<\/em> (Seagull Books, 2021), and the translator of The Universe, All at Once<\/em> (Seagull Books, forthcoming). Her translations of Arabic poems have appeared in World Literature Today<\/em>, Protean Magazine<\/em>, Mizna<\/em>, Nimrod<\/em>, ArabLit Quarterly<\/em>, Michigan Quarterly Review<\/em>, and Asymptote<\/em> among others. She is associate professor of Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania.","link":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/author\/almallahfakhreddine\/","slug":"almallahfakhreddine","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7980c9a3012239d56ff5680b25d37455?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7980c9a3012239d56ff5680b25d37455?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7980c9a3012239d56ff5680b25d37455?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}