Zeina Hashem Beck (

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: زينة هاشم بيك) is a Lebanese poet. She published five short story collections and many poems. She has won several awards including the Frederick Bock Prize in 2017 for her poem "Maqam".

Biography

Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet and writer. She graduated from the

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with a Bachelor's and Master's degree in English Literature. She published five short stories collections and many poems and has won several awards over the years. In 2013, her first poetry collection "To Live in Autumn" won the Backwaters Prize and was a runner-up for the Julie Suk Award in 2014. In 2016, her

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s "3arabi Song" won the Rattle Chapbook Prize, and "There Was and How Much There Was) was chosen by

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for publication. In 2017, her poem “Maqam" won Frederick Bock Prize. Zeina's poetry was featured on The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day and appeared in various magazines including Ploughshares, The New York Times Magazine, The Adroit Journal, The Rialto, Poetry London, and The Southeast Review. She currently lives in Dubai where she founded and hosts the open mic night PUNCH.

Works

Short Story Collections

* To Live in Autumn, 2013 * 3arabic Songs, 2016 * There Was and How Much There Was, 2016 * Louder than Hearts, 2016

Poems

* We Who Have Decided to Live in Autumn, 2013 * Bench, 2013 * Ghazal: Back Home, 2015 * Dismantling Grief, 2015 * Adhan, 2015 * Body, She Means It, 2016 * Layla, 2016 * In One Day and Night (original title: Fi Youm Wi Leila), 2016 * Crazy (original title: Majnun), 2016 * Say Love Say God, 2016 * There Was and How Much There Was, 2016 * Triptych: Voice, 2017 * Maqam, 2017 * There, There, Grieving, 2018 * Daily, 2018 * Prophecy, 2018 * Escape, 2018 * What the Returning Do, 2018 * Ghazal: Hands * Dear White Critic, رفيقي في الرحيل * Ode to the Afternoon, 2019 * Ghazal: With Prayer, 2019 * Souk, 2019 * Ode to Babel , نشيد الانتظار, 2019 * Ode to Disappointment, 2019 * Flamingos, 2019 * Ghazal: Back Home, 2019 * Poem Beginning and Ending with My Birth, 2020

Awards and honors

* Her short story collection "To Live in Autumn" won the Backwaters Prize in 2013. * Her short story collection "Louder than Hearts" won the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize in 2016. * Her chapbook "3arabi Song" won the Rattle Chapbook Prize in 2016. * Her short story "There Was and How Much There Was" was selected by

for 2016 Smit Doorstop Leaureate's Choice. * Her poem "Maqam" won Frederick Bock Prize in 2017.

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