Zeina Hashem Beck is a Lebanese poet with a BA and an MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut. Her first poetry collection, To Live in Autumn, won the 2013 Backwaters Prize and will be published in September 2014 by the Backwaters Press. It was selected as winning manuscript by distinguished poet Lola Haskins. She’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Nimrod, Poetry Northwest, Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry, The Common, Cream City Review, Quiddity, Copper Nickel, Mizna, The Midwest Quarterly, and Mslexia, among others. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Dubai, where she regularly performs her poetry, runs poetry workshops, and hosts PUNCH, a Dubai-based poetry and Open Mic collective.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 14:58:14 +0000
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