A Tunisian American poet who grew up between Tunisia and the United States, Leila Chatti is the author of Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), winner of the 2021 Levis Reading Prize and the 2021 Luschei Prize for African Poetry. Her chapbook Tunsiya/Amrikiya (Bull City Press, 2018) preceded a second full-length collection, Wildness Before Something Sublime (Copper Canyon Press, 2025). She holds a BA from Michigan State University and an MFA from North Carolina State University. The recipient of multiple Pushcart Prizes, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She served as the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow at Cleveland State University.
