RECOGNITION

—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, which published four poems.

— 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).