Sara Abou Rashed is a Palestinian poet, speaker, and creator of the one-woman show, A Map of Myself. Her writing interrogates exile, memory and matrilineal lineage. A former poetry fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, her work has been commended by the Forward Prize and was awarded the 2023 Hopwood Award for Poetry from the University of Michigan, where she earned her MFA. Sara’s writing appears in The Kenyon Review, The LA Review of Books, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Wales, as well as the anthology A Land with a People and 9-12 ELA curriculum from McGraw Hill, among others. Currently, Sara lives in Columbus, Ohio, and is working on her first book or two.
