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name: Hedy Habra
about: Hedy Habra was born in Egypt, and is of Lebanese origin. She has authored three poetry collections, most recently, The Taste of the Earth (Press 53 2019). Her ekphrastic collection, Under Brushstrokes, was finalist for the USA Best Book Award and the International Book Award, and her first collection, Tea in Heliopolis, won the USA Best Book Award and was finalist for the International Book Award. Her story collection, Flying Carpets, won the Arab American National Book Award’s Honorable Mention and was finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. Her book of literary criticism, Mundos alternos y artísticos en Vargas Llosa focuses on the visual in the narrative of the Peruvian Nobel recipient. A recipient of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, she was a Hedy Habra was born in Egypt, and is of Lebanese origin. She has authored three poetry collections, most recently, The Taste of the Earth (Press 53 2019). Her ekphrastic collection, Under Brushstrokes, was finalist for the USA Best Book Award and the International Book Award, and her first collection, Tea in Heliopolis, won the USA Best Book Award and was finalist for the International Book Award. Her story collection, Flying Carpets, won the Arab American National Book Award’s Honorable Mention and was finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. Her book of literary criticism, Mundos alternos y artísticos en Vargas Llosa focuses on the visual in the narrative of the Peruvian Nobel recipient. A recipient of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Award, she was a fourteen-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Habra has an MA and MFA in English and an MA and Ph.D. in Spanish. She is fluent in five languages and her work appears in Cimarron Review, Bitter Oleander, Blue Fifth Review, Cider Press Review, Drunken Boat, Gargoyle, Nimrod, Poet Lore, World Literature Today and Verse Daily. Habra is also an artist who has a passion for art. She has taught Spanish at Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo College. Her website is hedyhabra.com ...more