George Abraham

Bio

George Abraham (he/they) is a Palestinian American poet and writer from Jacksonville, FL. He is the author of the poetry collection, Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), winner of the 2021 Arab American Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry. He is a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), a recipient of grants and fellowships from Kundiman, The Boston Foundation, and the Poetry Foundation, and winner of the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Prize selected by Tommy Pico. 

A graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard University, guest lecturer at Stanford University, and affiliated faculty member at Emerson College, Abraham is currently based in Chicago, IL, where he is a Litowitz MFA+MA Candidate in poetry at Northwestern University. They are currently working on a theatrical collaboration, EVE, with Fargo Tbakhi, and are co-editing an anthology of Palestinian poetry with Noor Hindi for Haymarket Books.