Zeina Hashem Beck is the author of O (Penguin Books, 2022), which won the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Poetry and was named a Best Book of the Year by Literary Hub and The New York Public Library. She’s also the author of Louder Than Hearts (Bauhan Publishing, 2017) and To Live in Autumn (The Backwaters Press, 2014), as well as the chapbooks 3arabi Song (Rattle, 2016) and There Was and How Much There Was (smith|doorstop, 2016). Her debut nonfiction, Sublingual: Failing in an Other’s Language, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books in fall 2027. Educated in Arabic, English, and French, Zeina has a BA and an MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut. Her poem “Maqam” won Poetry’s 2017 Frederick Bock Prize, and her work appeared in The Nation, Lithub, the Academy of American Poets, LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. She grew up in Lebanon and currently resides and teaches in the Bay Area.
