Etel Adnan

Etel Adnan, a renowned visual artist and poet, was born on February 24, 1925, in Beirut, Lebanon. Adnan authored more than a dozen books of poetry, fiction, and essays, including Shifting the Silence (Nightboat Books, 2020); Time (Nightboat Books, 2019), translated by fellow writer and artist Sarah Riggs, was a winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize; Surge (Nightboat Books, 2018); and Night (Nightboat Books, 2016). Her poetry collection Sea and Fog (Nightboat, 2012) won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry and the California Book Award. She is also the recipient of a PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award and in 2014 was named a member of the Ordre de Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, one of France’s highest cultural honors. (Source)