Tarik Dobbs

Tarik Dobbs is an Arab American, disabled, queer poet. They are the author of Dearbornistan (Haymarket Books, 2026) and Nazar Boy (Haymarket Books, 2024). A 2022 Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow, Dobbs is an assistant professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University. They live on unceded Mdewakanton Dakota and Ojibwe lands in Minnesota.