Dujie Tahat

Dujie Tahat is the author of three chapbooks: Balikbayan (New Michigan Press, 2022); Here I Am O My God (Poetry Society of America, 2020), selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship; and Salat (Tupelo Press, 2020), winner of the Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Award and long-listed for the 2020 PEN/Voelcker Award. 

Tahat has earned fellowships from the National Book Critics Circle, Hugo House, the Jack Straw Writing Program, and the Poetry Incubator in Santa Fe, as well as scholarships from Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences.

Tahat serves as critic-at-large for Poetry Northwest and the poetry editor for Moss. Their career began as a Seattle Poetry Slam finalist, a collegiate grand slam champion, and a Seattle Youth Speaks Grand Slam champion, representing the city on HBO’s Brave New Voices. Along with Luther Hughes and Gabrielle Bates, Tahat cohosts The Poet Salon podcast. In 2025, they were appointed the fifth Seattle Civic Poet through 2026.