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Nathalie Handal was born on July 29, 1969. She has lived in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, and has traveled extensively in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Poet, writer, playwright, editor and literary researcher, she finished her postgraduate studies in English and Drama at University of London, United Kingdom, her MFA in Creative Writing and Literature at Bennington College, Vermont, her Master of Arts in English and her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Communications at Simmons College, Boston. She has taught creative writing workshops worldwide, was one of the Chairs at the Pushkin Club, London (Russian Literary Center) and the Program Director of Summer Literary Seminars in the Dominican Republic. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines/literary journals in United States, Europe and the Middle East, namely, The Literary Review, Orbis, the Brooklyn Review, Ambit, Stone Soup, Sable, Jusoor, Visions-International, Al Jadid, Al Karmel, Post-Gibran (Syracuse University Press), and in various anthologies, most recently, 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11 (New York University Press), This Bridge We Call Home: Embodying the Spirit of This Bridge Called My Back, ed. Gloria Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating (New York: Routledge), and she is the title poet of an anthology edited by Naomi Shihab Nye, The Space Between Our Footsteps (Simon & Schuster). Her work has been translated into French, Spanish and Arabic; and Sargon Boulos is currently translating her book of poetry into Arabic. Handal has also interviewed numerous writers including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Simic and Mahmoud Darwish. She has read/performed poetry and given talks on Arab-American and Ethnic-American literature and theatre in the United States, Europe, and the Arab world, namely, La Sorbonne, University of London, McGill University, City University of New York, Yarmouk University, University of Jordan, and numerous other universities and conferences in America and England. Her poetry book, The NeverField (1999) is published by The Post-Apollo Press, California; and Traveling Rooms (1999), a CD of her poetry and improvisational music by Russian musicians, Vladimir Miller and Alexandr Alexandrov, is produced by ASC Records in the United Kingdom. She is the editor of The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology (Interlink, Massachusetts, 2000), an Academy of American Poets bestseller. Handal is presently editing two an/thologies, Arab-American Literature and Dominican Literature and co-editing along with Tina Chang and Ravi Shankar, Risen from East: An Anthology of South Asian, East Asian and Middle Eastern Poets. The artist Mohammad Al Jaloos has created a series of paintings inspired by Handal's twenty-five love poems, Forgetting, Love, which will be a traveling exhibition. She is finishing a play, The Raining Room and her poetry book, Strangers Inside Me, is forthcoming. |
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