Zein El-Amine
Zein El-Amine is a Lebanese-born poet and writer. He has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Maryland where he taught creative writing, global literature, and led literary study abroad programs to Egypt, Ireland, and Morocco. He presently teaches at Georgetown University, American University, and George Washington University in Washington DC.
His poems have appeared in Wild River Review, Folio, Beltway Quarterly, Foreign Policy In Focus, CityLit, Graylit, Split This Rock, and Penumbra. His works have been anthologized in DC Poets Against The War: An Anthology, Ghostfishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, and will be included in an upcoming anthology of love poems by Arab poets, edited by New York poet Hala Alyan. His latest poetry manuscript A Travel Guide for the Exiled was recently shortlisted for the Bergman Prize, judged by Louise Glück, and longlisted by Steel Toe Books Poetry Contest.
His short stories have appeared in Uno Mas, Jadaliyya, Middle East Report, Wild River Review, About Place Journal, and Bound Off.
Zein was recently awarded a writing residency at the Blue Mountain Center where he completed his first short story collection.
His poems have appeared in Wild River Review, Folio, Beltway Quarterly, Foreign Policy In Focus, CityLit, Graylit, Split This Rock, and Penumbra. His works have been anthologized in DC Poets Against The War: An Anthology, Ghostfishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, and will be included in an upcoming anthology of love poems by Arab poets, edited by New York poet Hala Alyan. His latest poetry manuscript A Travel Guide for the Exiled was recently shortlisted for the Bergman Prize, judged by Louise Glück, and longlisted by Steel Toe Books Poetry Contest.
His short stories have appeared in Uno Mas, Jadaliyya, Middle East Report, Wild River Review, About Place Journal, and Bound Off.
Zein was recently awarded a writing residency at the Blue Mountain Center where he completed his first short story collection.
Books
IS THIS HOW YOU EAT A WATERMELON?
Is This How You Eat a Watermelon? invites readers into a world where love, war, and trauma collide with the desire to consume life—or be consumed by it.
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