RECOGNITION

— Winner of Columbia Journal’s Online Translation Contest, 2025

Stine An selected Sara Elkamel’s translation of two poems by Dalia Taha as the winner of the Columbia Journal’s 2025 Online Translation contest.

—Winner of Southeast Review’s Gearhart Poetry Prize

Natalie Shapero selected “The Sleeper” as the 2023 Gearhart Poetry Prize winner.

— Pushcart Prize Winner

“Lake Qarun,” originally published in Sundog Lit, was awarded a Pushcart Prize.

— Winner of the 2022 Goldstein Prize in Poetry, Michigan Quarterly Review

“In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat” was selected by Ruth Behar as the winner of the Goldstein Prize in Poetry.

— Winner of Redivider’s 2021 Blurred Genre Contest

“Garden City, Cairo” was selected by Redivider’s editors as the winner of the Blurred Genre contest.

— Winner of the 2022 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, Tinderbox Poetry Journal

“I Have Not Been a Child in Years” was selected as the BEJ prize winner by contest judge Sally Keith.

— Finalist, 2022 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest

“I Have Not Been a Child in Years” was selected as a finalist by contest judge Donika Kelly.

— Best New Poets, 2022

“In This Town We Rescue Cats,” was selected by Paula Bohince for inclusion in the Best New Poets anthology.

— Pushcart Prize Nominations

2022: “Lake Qarun,” Sundog Lit;
“A Break for the Horizon,” 128 Lit, by Mona Kareem, translated from Arabic.

2021: “Dreams of the Detainee,” Poet Lore;
“Of Course Not All Men Find Music Again,” Hobart;
and “Bad Temple,” Booth.

2020: “Scheherazade as Nile Bride [Contrapuntal]”, Four Way Review.

— Best of the Net, 2020

“Buried at Sea” was selected by Jasminne Mendez for inclusion in the Best of the Net anthology.

— Best New Poets, 2020

“Field of No Justice” was selected by Brian Teare for inclusion in the Best New Poets anthology.

— Gregory Djanikian Scholarship, 2020

Named a 2020 Gregory Djanikian Scholar by The Adroit Journal.

— Finalist, Narrative Magazine’s 30 Below Poetry Contest, 2020

For: “What This Elegy Wants”.

— Finalist, Great River Review’s Pink Poetry Prize, 2021

For: “Before the Wedding”, and “Is it an imposition if I write poetry about your mother?”.

— Finalist, Breakwater Review’s Peseroff Poetry Prize, 2020

For: “The Book of Two Experiences”.

— Finalist, Radix Media’s Own Voices Chapbook Prize, 2020

For: “Now I Have No Book Of Dreams” (Chapbook).

— Semi-Finalist, Black Lawrence Press’s Black River Chapbook Competition, 2019

For: “All My Life I Wanted to be A Gift to the Nile” (Chapbook).