Fady Joudah

Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah is an Editor-at-Large for Milkweed Editions. He has published five collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu; a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; and, most recently, Tethered to Stars. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and has received a PEN award, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.
Awards
Yale Younger Poets
Guggenheim Fellowship
PEN Translation Award
Banipal/Times Literary Supplement Prize
Griffin Poetry Prize
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Houston, TX — 04/24/2021
Join Brazos Bookstore for a virtual poetry reading with Wayne Miller & Fady Joudah, celebrating their new collections We the...