Ahmad Almallah

Ahmad Almallah is a poet from Palestine and an artist-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania. His newest poetry collection is Wrong Winds (Fonograf Editions, 2025). His other collections include Border Wisdom (Winter Editions, 2023) and Bitter English (University of Chicago Press, 2019). He was one of 12 writers selected for the Royal Society of Literature’s 2025 Prize, which recognizes the contribution of writers across the globe to literature in English. Almallah also won the 2018 Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for creative writing and the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. His poems have been published in Jacket2, Apiary, Supplement, SAND, Michigan Quarterly Review, Cordite, American Poetry Review, and Poetry, among other publications.