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Sara Elkamel
Sara is a poet, journalist and translator based in Cairo. She holds an MA in arts journalism from Columbia University, and an MFA in poetry from New York University. Elkamel's poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, The Yale Review, and Gulf Coast, among others. She was named a 2020 Gregory Djanikian Scholar by The Adroit Journal, the winner of Redivider's 2021 Blurred Genre Contest, Tinderbox's 2022 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, and Michigan Quarterly Review's 2022 Goldstein Poetry Prize. Elkamel’s debut chapbook, “Field of No Justice,” was published by the African Poetry Book Fund & Akashic Books in 2021.
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Backstage at the Cairo Opera House, Split Lip Magazine
Bad Temple, Booth
Desert Prison: A Testimony, Poetry Magazine
Dreams of the Detainee, Poet Lore
Four Poems, The Adroit Journal
The Choreography of Grief, Salt Hill Journal