Her recent poetry books include
Life in a Country Album, winner of the Palestine Book Award; the flash collection
The Republics, lauded as “one of the most inventive books by one of today’s most diverse writers” and winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American Book Award; the critically acclaimed
Poet in Andalucía;
Love and Strange Horses, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award; and the bilingual collections
Riflessi (Italian/English) and
La estrella invisible (Spanish/English).
Her nonfiction has appeared in
Vanity Fair,
Guernica, the
Guardian, the
New York Times,
the Nation, and the
Irish Times, among others. Handal is the recipient of awards from the PEN Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, Fondazione di Venezia, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, and the Africa Institute, among others. She is professor of literature and creative writing at New York University. She says: “I’m a multi-city person. My cities are New York, Rome, Paris, Bethlehem
. My family-cities are Santo Domingo, Marseilles, Berlin. And currently my work-cities are in the UAE, Sicily, Japan. The city, like the body, like love, is unreachable.” Read her poem
“The City”.