Year | Prize Amount |
2010 | $25,000 |
Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya, in 1964 and immigrated to the United States in his teens. Mattawa received a BA in political science and economics from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga before earning an MA in English and an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University, as well as a PhD from Duke University in 2009.