Dunya Mikhail

Dunya Mikhail (1965, Iraq / United States of America) is an Iraqi-American poet and writer. She is a laureate of the UNESCO Sharja Prize for Arab Culture and has received fellowships from the United States Artists, the Guggenheim, Kresge, and the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. Her books include The War Works Hard (tr. by Elizabeth Winslow), shortlisted for the International Griffon Poetry Prize; Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea won the Arab American Book Award. The Iraqi Nights (tr. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid) received the Poetry Magazine Translation Award, and In Her Feminine Sign was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the ten best poetry books of 2019. Her non-fiction The Beekeeper (co-translated with Max Weiss) was a finalist for the National Book Award and was shortlisted for PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award. The Bird Tattoo, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.