Extended Bio:

George Abraham (they/he/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, performance artist, and writer from Jacksonville, FL. Their debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020) won the Arab American Book Award and the Big Other Book Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry. He is also the author of the chapbooks al youm (The Atlas Review, 2017), and the specimen's apology (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019). He is a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), a recipient of fellowships from The Arab American National Museum, The Boston Foundation, the National Performance Network, and the Map Fund, and more. Their writing has appeared in The Nation, The American Poetry Review, The Baffler, The Paris Review, Mizna, and many other journals and anthologies. A graduate of Northwestern University's Litowitz MFA+MA program in Creative Writing,  Abraham has taught at Emerson College and Harvard University. He is currently Executive Editor of the Whiting Award winning journal Mizna. Their collaborations include co-editing a Palestinian poetry anthology with Noor Hindi titled HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket Books, May 2025), and a performance art project titled EVE with Fargo Tbakhi. Their work has been translated into Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and more. They currently teach at Amherst College as a Writer-in-Residence.