In the search for a true home, what does it mean to be confronted instead by an insurmountable sense of otherness? This question dwells at the center of Saba Keramati’s Self-Mythology, finalist for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. The collection explores multiraciality and the legacy of exile alongside the poet’s uniquely American origin as the only child of political refugees from China and Iran. Keramati navigates her ancestral past while asking what language and poetry can offer to those who exist on the margins of contemporary society.
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Saba Keramati
, She is a Chinese-Iranian writer from California. She is the author of Self-Mythology (University of Arkansas Press, 2024), selected by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series. A winner of the Discovery Poetry Prize, Saba's work appears or is forthcoming... Read more
, She is a Chinese-Iranian writer from California. She is the author of Self-Mythology (University of Arkansas Press, 2024), selected by Patricia Smith for the Miller Williams Poetry Series. A winner of the Discovery Poetry Prize, Saba's work appears or is forthcoming in Lit Hub, Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, AGNI, and other journals. She is the poetry editor at Sundog Lit. Read less
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