Sarah Aziza (she/هي ) is a Palestinian American writer, translator, and artist with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah, Gaza. She is the author of The Hollow Half. Winner of the Palestine Book Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, Arab American Book Award Honorable Mention, and a Lambda Literary Award finalist, The Hollow Half is a genre-bending work of memoir, lyricism, and oral history exploring the intertwined legacies of diaspora, colonialism, and the American dream. It is available wherever books are sold.
Sarah’s award-winning journalism, poetry, essays, and experimental nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best American Essays, The Baffler, Harper’s Magazine, Mizna, The Guardian, and The Nation, among other publications as well as numerous translations. The recipient of fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, United States Artists, the Asian American Writers Workshop, Tin House Writers’ Workshop, and numerous grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, she has lived and worked throughout Southwest Asia and North Africa. She currently lives on unceded Canarsie and Munsee Lenape land where she makes, learns and works towards liberation for Palestine and beyond.
Sarah will offer her nonfiction workshop “Writing As If — Finding the Language of Your World,” teach her craft session “Authorship Against Authority: Crafting Insurgencies,” and participate in the reading and conversation series.
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