Dunya Mikhail

Iraqi American poet Dunya Mikhail is the author of numerous poetry collections: The War Works Hard (New Directions, 2005), translated from the Arabic by Elizabeth Winslow, won a PEN Translation Fund Grant, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and was selected as one of the 25 Books to Remember from 2005 by the New York Public Library; Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (New Directions, 2009), which Mikhail cotranslated with Elizabeth Winslow, won the Arab American Book Award; The Iraqi Nights (New Directions, 2014), translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, won the Poetry Magazine John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation; In Her Feminine Sign (New Directions, 2019), which was chosen as one of the ten best poetry books of 2019 by The New York Public Library; and Tablets: Secrets of the Clay (New Directions, 2024). She also wrote the nonfiction book The Beekeeper (New Directions, 2018), which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and her debut novel, The Bird Tattoo (Pegasus Books, 2022), which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. (Source)