Occupation
Graduate Student (Masters)
Contact
ABOUT
George Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, writer, performance artist, and engineer who was born and raised on unceded Timucuan lands (Jacksonville, FL). Their debut poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry) won the Arab American Book Award and the Big Other Book Award, and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He is a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers, and recipient of fellowships from The Arab American National Museum, The Boston Foundation, and Kundiman. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The Nation, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, Mizna, and elsewhere. A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard University, they are currently a Litowitz MFA+MA Candidate in poetry at Northwestern University.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Palestinian Studies
Colonialism
Comparative
Ethnic American Studies
Queer/LGBT Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Palestine
Specialties
Palestinian And Diasporic Poetics
Necropolitical Theory
Languages
English (native)
Arabic (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Education
MS
| 2020
| Bioengineering
| Harvard University
BA
| 2017
| Mathematics
| Swarthmore College
BS
| 2017
| Engineering
| Swarthmore College
Abstracts
Permission to Speculate: Death Worlds and Palestinian Literary Imaginations
Palestinian Spectrality: Teaching Poetry in a Palestinian Catastrophe
