A Lebanese poet, Zeina Hashem Beck holds a BA from the American University of Beirut and an MA from the University of Birmingham. Her debut, To Live in Autumn (The Backwaters Press, 2014), won the 2013 Backwaters Prize, and Louder than Hearts (Bauhan Publishing, 2017) won the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. Her collection O (Penguin Books, 2022), which made her the first Arab poet in the Penguin Poets series, won the 2023 Arab American Book Award for poetry. Her poem “Maqam” received the 2017 Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry. She teaches in the MFA programs at Warren Wilson College and Saint Mary's College of California.
