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Nathalie Handal is an American
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, described as a “contemporary Orpheus.” A New Yorker of Mediterranean roots, she has published seven prize-winning collections, including ''Life in a Country Album.'' She is praised for her “diverse, and innovative body of work.” Poetry Foundation - Nathalie Handal
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Biography

Nathalie Handal is a French-American poet and writer born in the Caribbean to a Palestinian family from Bethlehem. She has lived in France, Italy, the United States,
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. After earning a MFA in
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from
Bennington College Bennington College is a private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont. Founded in 1932 as a women's college, it became co-educational in 1969. It claims to be the first college to include visual and performing arts as an equal partner in ...
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and a MPhil in
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at the
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, Handal began writing and translating global literature in the 1990s. She currently resides in
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and teaches at
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Literary career

Handal has authored books of poetry, plays, essays, and has edited two anthologies and has been involved as a writer, director, or producer in several theatrical or film productions. Her work has been translated into over fifteen languages. She is a Lannan Foundation Fellow, Pen International Croatia Fellow, Centro Andaluz de las Letras Fellow, Fondazione di Venezia Fellow, recipient of the Alejo Zuloaga Order in Literature 2011, the AE Ventures Fellowship, an Honored Finalist for the 2009 Gift of Freedom Award, and was shortlisted for New London Writers Awards and The Arts Council of England Writers Awards. Her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines such as ''Vanity Fair,'' ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Irish Times'', ''World Literature Today'', ''The Virginia Quarterly Review'', ''Poetry New Zealand'', ''Guernica Magazine'', and ''The Nation''. Her book ''The Lives of Rain'' was shortlisted for the
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language. This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States was initiated by ...
and received the
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Literary Award. ''Love and Strange Horses'' won the 2011 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY Award), and was an Honorable Mention at the San Francisco Book Festival and the New England Book Festival. The flash collection ''The Republics'' was called “one of the most inventive books by one of today’s most diverse writers” and is winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American Book Award. And ''Life in a Country Album'' is winner of the Palestine Book Award and a Foreword Indies Book Award finalist. Handal has edited the anthology ''The Poetry of Arab Women'', which introduced Arab women poets to a wider audience in the West. It was an
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bestseller, named one of the top 10 Feminist Books by ''The Guardian'', and it won the
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. She co-edited along with
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and
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the anthology ''Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond''. She has lectured or been a Visiting Writer at
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in Paris,
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in Rome,
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in Beirut, Picador Guest Professor at
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, Germany, and professor at
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and part of the Low-Residency MFA faculty at
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. Handal is currently a professor at
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and a Visiting Writer at
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in Rome. She writes the literary travel column, "The City and the Writer," for Words Without Borders magazines, and "Eat: Everywhere a Tale," for Popula.


Publications

;Poetry * ''The Neverfield Poem'' (1999) * ''The Lives of Rain'' (2005) * ''Love and Strange Horses'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010) * ''Poet in Andalucía'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012) * ''The Invisible Star/La estrella invisible'' (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2014) * ''The Republics'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) * ''Life in a Country Album'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019) * ''Volo'' (Diode Editions, chapbook 2022) ;Poetry / Foreign Publications * ''Las horas suspendidas: poemas escogidos'' (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2012) * ''Poeta en Andalucía'' (Visor, España, 2013) * ''La estrella invisible'' (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2014) * ''Riflessi, Artist Book, Illustrazioni di Lucio Schiavo'' (Damocle Edizioni,Venezia, 2016) * ''Pjesnik u Andaluziji'' (Druga prica, Zagreb, 2017) * ''التّلحمية Al-Talhamiyah'' (Jordan, 2017) * ''Canto Mediterraneo'' (Ronzani Editore, Italia, 2018) * ''Le vite della pioggia'' (Iacobelli Editore, Roma, Italia, 2018) * ''Poet in Andalucia - Arabic'' (Takween, Damascus, 2019) * ''Life in A Country Album - UK'' (flipped eye, United Kingdom 2020) * ''Selected Poems: 2005-2019'' (Fawasel Publishing House, Syria, 2022) ;Anthologies * ''The Poetry of Arab Women'' (2001, ed. by Handal) * ''Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond'' (W.W. Norton, 2008, ed. by Handal, Tina Chang and Ravi Shankar) ;Plays * ''Between Our Lips'' * ''La Cosa Dei Sogni'' * ''The Stonecutters'' * ''The Details of Silence'' * ''The Oklahoma Quartet'' * ''Hakawatiyeh'' * ''Men in Verse'' ;Prose (creative nonfiction, fiction) *“The Night and Nightingale"
Guernica Magazine ''Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics'' is an online magazine that publishes art, photography, fiction, and poetry from around the world, along with nonfiction such as letters from abroad, investigative pieces, and opinion pieces on internat ...
, March 2017 *“My East in Venice"
Guernica Magazine ''Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics'' is an online magazine that publishes art, photography, fiction, and poetry from around the world, along with nonfiction such as letters from abroad, investigative pieces, and opinion pieces on internat ...
, April 2017 *“After Kaddish"
Guernica Magazine ''Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics'' is an online magazine that publishes art, photography, fiction, and poetry from around the world, along with nonfiction such as letters from abroad, investigative pieces, and opinion pieces on internat ...
, September 2018 ;CDs * ''Traveling Rooms'' * ''Spell'' ;Interviews and Reviews * "Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile", ''
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'', May 2002 *"Shades of a Bridge's Breath", ''This bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation'', eds. Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Analouise Keating (Routledge, 2002). *"Sisterhood of Hope", interview with Zainab Salbi, ''Saudi Aramco World'', September/October 2010 *"We Are All Going to Die", interview with Edwidge Dandicat, Guernica Magazine, January 2011 *"The Other Face of Silence", interview with Elia Suleiman,
Guernica Magazine ''Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics'' is an online magazine that publishes art, photography, fiction, and poetry from around the world, along with nonfiction such as letters from abroad, investigative pieces, and opinion pieces on internat ...
, May 2011 *"Not Quite Invisible", Nathalie Handal interviews Mark Strand,
Guernica Magazine ''Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics'' is an online magazine that publishes art, photography, fiction, and poetry from around the world, along with nonfiction such as letters from abroad, investigative pieces, and opinion pieces on internat ...
, April 2012 *"Against the Line", interview with Jonathan Galassi,
Guernica Magazine ''Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics'' is an online magazine that publishes art, photography, fiction, and poetry from around the world, along with nonfiction such as letters from abroad, investigative pieces, and opinion pieces on internat ...
, June 2012 *“Elisa Biagini: A World Reinvented Through Poetry,”
Guernica Magazine ''Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics'' is an online magazine that publishes art, photography, fiction, and poetry from around the world, along with nonfiction such as letters from abroad, investigative pieces, and opinion pieces on internat ...
, February 7, 2014 *“Kareem James Abu-Zeid: A Search for Justice and Expansive Identities,"
Guernica Magazine ''Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics'' is an online magazine that publishes art, photography, fiction, and poetry from around the world, along with nonfiction such as letters from abroad, investigative pieces, and opinion pieces on internat ...
, August 2014 *“Isabella Hammad's The Parisian",
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, May 7, 2019 *“Introduction to Edwidge Danticat",
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, September 2019


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