Nathalie Handal

Nathalie Handal is an award-winning Palestinian-American poet, playwright, and editor whose work explores themes of identity, exile, love, and belonging. She is the author of "Love and Strange Horses," winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award, and the editor of "The Poetry of Arab Women," a landmark anthology that brings vital voices to the world stage. Handal's writing bridges cultures and languages, reflecting her multicultural upbringing across Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Arab world. A celebrated literary figure, she is also a professor and a passionate advocate for global literature and cross-cultural dialogue.