Tracy Fuad is the author of PITH, winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Prize, and DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD. Her work has appeared in Poetry, the Best New Poets Anthology, the New Republic, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA program and a 2021–2022 Writing Fellow at the Providence Fine Arts Work Center.

For all her experimentation, Fuad is anchored to the complexities of her Iraqi Kurdish heritage, even as gentrification changes the region. . . . The submergence of identity richly complicates this poet’s promising debut.

Tracy Fuad is the author of PITH, winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Prize, and DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD. Her work has appeared in Poetry, the Best New Poets Anthology, the New Republic, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA program and a 2021–2022 Writing Fellow at the Providence Fine Arts Work Center.

For all her experimentation, Fuad is anchored to the complexities of her Iraqi Kurdish heritage, even as gentrification changes the region. . . . The submergence of identity richly complicates this poet’s promising debut.

Tracy Fuad is the author of PITH, winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Prize, and DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD. Her work has appeared in Poetry, the Best New Poets Anthology, the New Republic, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA program and a 2021–2022 Writing Fellow at the Providence Fine Arts Work Center.

For all her experimentation, Fuad is anchored to the complexities of her Iraqi Kurdish heritage, even as gentrification changes the region. . . . The submergence of identity richly complicates this poet’s promising debut.