Sarah Aziza (she/هي ) is a Palestinian American writer, translator, and artist with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah, Gaza. She is the author of the genre-bending memoir The Hollow Half, winner of the Palestine Book Award and named a Most Anticipated and Best Book of the Year by Vulture, Vanity Fair, Literary Hub, Elle, Electric Literature, Mizna, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among others.
Sarah’s award-winning journalism, poetry, essays, and experimental nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best American Essays, The Baffler, Harper’s Magazine, Mizna, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Nation, among other publications, as well as in translations including Spanish, Arabic, Swedish, Italian, and German. She is the recipient of fellowships and support from Fulbright, MacDowell, USA Artists, the Asian American Writers Workshop, Tin House Writers’ Workshop, the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, and the National Press Club, among others. Having lived and worked in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, South Africa, and Palestine, Sarah now resides in the U.S. on occupied Munsee Lenape and Canarsie land. She is currently at work on several creative projects, pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature, and struggling, daily, toward a free Palestine.