Lisa Suhair Majaj

Writer, Editor (Palestine/USA)

Lisa Suhair Majaj, a Palestinian-American writer and editor, is the author of Geographies of Light (Del Sol Press Poetry Prize, 2009), poems and essays in journals and anthologies across the US, Europe, the Middle East and India, a forthcoming poetry volume “Broken, Unbroken,” and two children’s books. A scholar of Arab-American literature, she coedited three volumes of critical essays on Arab, Arab American, and international women writers, and is coediting a forthcoming “Companion to Arab American Literature.” She has taught at various institutions and has spoken at World Court of Women Against War (Bangalore), London Southbank’s Poetry International, Palestine Writes, Cyprus International Literary Festival, and other events in the US, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Germany, Tunisia, Bahrain, India. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Indonesian and Malayalam, and were displayed in the 2016 exhibition ‘Aftermath: The Fallout of War—America and the Middle East’ (Harn Museum of Art).