10 Facts About Nathalie Handal

Nathalie Handal is an American poet, writer and educator, described as a “contemporary Orpheus.

Nathalie Handal's is praised for her “diverse, and innovative body of work.

Nathalie Handal is a French-American poet and writer born in Haiti to a Palestinian family from Bethlehem.

Nathalie Handal's has lived in France, Italy, the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Arab world.

Nathalie Handal has authored books of poetry, plays, essays, and has edited two anthologies and has been involved as a writer, director, or producer in several theatrical or film productions.

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Nathalie Handal's is a Lannan Foundation Fellow, Pen International Croatia Fellow, Centro Andaluz de las Letras Fellow, Fondazione di Venezia Fellow, recipient of the Alejo Zuloaga Order in Literature 2011, the AE Ventures Fellowship, an Honored Finalist for the 2009 Gift of Freedom Award, and was shortlisted for New London Writers Awards and The Arts Council of England Writers Awards.

Nathalie Handal has edited the anthology The Poetry of Arab Women, which introduced Arab women poets to a wider audience in the West.

Nathalie Handal's has lectured or been a Visiting Writer at La Sorbonne in Paris, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, John Cabot in Rome, The American University in Beirut, Picador Guest Professor at Leipzig University, Germany, and professor at Columbia University and part of the Low-Residency MFA faculty at Sierra Nevada University.

Nathalie Handal is currently a professor at New York University and a Visiting Writer at The American University in Rome.

Nathalie Handal's writes the literary travel column, "The City and the Writer, " for Words Without Borders magazines, and "Eat: Everywhere a Tale, " for Popula.