Nathalie Handal

is described as a “contemporary Orpheus.” She has lived in four continents and is the author of more than ten award-winning books, including Life in a Country Album, winner of the Palestine Book Award; The Republics, winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American Book Award; the critically acclaimed Poet in Andalucía; and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award. Handal is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, Fondazione di Venezia, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, and the Africa Institute, among others. She is professor at New York University-AD, and writes the column, “The City and the Writer” for Words Without Borders. Poetry editor at Guernica, her forthcoming book Roma Roam will be out fall 2026.