Batool Abu Akleen is a Palestinian poet and translator from Gaza City. At the age of fifteen, 2020, she won the Barjeel Poetry Prize, and her work has been translated into several languages and featured in numerous international publications. Abu Akleen was Modern Poetry in Translation ‘Poet / Translator in Residence,’ 2024, and is one of the four Gazan authors included in Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide (Comma Press, 2025).
She has performed her poetry at the Venice Biennale, 2026, and her work has been featured as a Palestine Festival of Literature ‘Bookshelf’ selection, Summer 2025, and a New Statesman ‘Book of the Year.’ Following her evacuation from Gaza, Autumn 2025, Abu Akleen is concluding her studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.
