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Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet and writer. She is the author of the poetry collections The War Works Hard (shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize), Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea (winner of the Arab American Book Award), The Iraqi Nights (winner of the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation), and In Her Feminine Sign, which was chosen as one of the ten best poetry books of 2019 by the New York Public Library. Her nonfiction book The Beekeeper was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her debut novel, The Bird Tattoo, was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Mikhail is a laureate of the UNESCO Sharja Prize for Arab Culture and is a recipient of the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. She currently teaches Arabic and poetry at Oakland University in Michigan.

'Dunya Mikhail is a woman who speaks like the disillusioned goddesses of Babylon. Blunt as well as subtle, she makes of war a distinct entity, thus turning it into a myth. To her own question, "What does it mean to die all this death?", her poems answer that it means to reveal the only redeeming power that we have: the existence of love.' - Etel Adnan'A gorgeous fusion of poetry and art by "one of the foremost poets of our time"' - The Christian Science Monitor