Dunya Mikhail

Dunya Mikhail is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Tablets: Secrets of the Clay (New Directions, 2024); In Her Feminine Sign (New Directions, 2019), which was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the ten best poetry books of 2019; The Iraqi Nights (New Directions, 2014); Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (New Directions, 2009), winner of the 2010 Arab American Book Award for Poetry; and The War Works Hard (New Directions, 2005). In 2023, she published the novel The Bird Tattoo (Pegasus Books).

Mikhail’s other honors include the eighteenth UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture, the Kresge Artist Fellowship, and the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing.

Mikhail lives in Michigan, where she is a lecturer of Arabic at Oakland University.