Hedy Habra

HEDY HABRA was born in Egypt and is of Lebanese origin. She is the author of four poetry collections, most recently, Or Did You Ever See The Other Side? (Press 53 2023). Her third collection, The Taste of the Earth (Press 53 2019), won the 2020 Silver Nautilus Award, Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and was Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize in all categories; Her first collection, Tea in Heliopolis (Press 53 2013) won the 2014 USA Best Book Award for Poetry and finalist for the International Book Award for Poetry, and her ekphrastic collection, Under Brushstrokes (Press 53 2015), was a finalist for the 2015 USA Best Book Awards and the International Poetry Book Award. Her collection of short fiction, Flying Carpets (Interlink 2013), won a 2013 Arab American National Book Award’s Honorable Mention and was a finalist for the 2014 Eric Hoffer Award and the USA Best Book Award. Her book of literary criticism, Mundos alternos y artísticos en Vargas Llosa (Iberoamericana/Vervuert 2012) explores the visual and interartistic elements in the Peruvian Nobel Laureate's characters’ interiority. She has a B.S. in Pharmacy from the French Faculté St. Joseph. She also has an M.A. and an M.F.A. in English and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish literature, all from Western Michigan University, where she has been teaching. She writes poetry and fiction in French, Spanish, and English and has numerous poems and short stories in journals and anthologies, including Cimarron Review, The Bitter Oleander, Blue Fifth Review, Cider Press Review, The Cortland Review, Cutthroat, Diode, Drunken Boat, The Ekphrastic Review, Indelible, Levure Littéraire, MockingHeart Review, New York Quarterly, Nimrod, Poet Lore, Solstice, Panoplyzine, Pirene’s Fountain, Letras Femeninas, The MacGuffin, The Macqueen's Quinterly, Mizna, Sukoon, ArLijo 54, Alba de América, Gargoyle, Feral, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Slant, World Literature Today and Verse Daily. Her website is HedyHabra.com