Sara Abou Rashed

Sara Abou Rashed is a Palestinian poet, speaker, and creator of the one-woman show A Map of Myself. A former poetry fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, her work has been commended by the UK Forward Prize and was awarded the 2023 Hopwood Award for Poetry from the University of Michigan, where she earned her MFA. Sara’s writing appears in The Kenyon Review, The LA Review of Books, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Wales, the McGraw Hill Language Arts curriculum, and in the anthologies A Land with a People, Heaven Looks Like Us, and Ask the Night for a Dream, among others. Sara lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she's pursuing a PhD in English at The Ohio State University. Theories of Return is her debut collection.