suheir hammad
 
Suheir Hammad is a Palestinian-American poet, author and political activist who was born on October 1973 in Amman, Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents and immigrated with her family to Brooklyn, New York City when she was five years old. Her parents later moved to Staten Island.

AWARDS

The Audre Lorde Writing Award, Hunter College (1995, 2000)
The Morris Center for Healing Poetry Award (1996)
New York Mills Artist Residency (1998)
Van Lier Fellowship (1999)
The 2001 Emerging Artist Award, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Institute at NYU
TONY Award – Special Theatrical Event – original cast member and writer for Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway (2003)
Suheir is also a talent associate for the Peabody Award winning HBO show Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry (2003)

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