Yahia Lababidi

Author's Bio

Pushcart-nominated poet, with writing translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Slovak, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch and Swedish. Most recently, Lababidi has collaborated with Alex Stein on a collection of literary dialogues, titled, "The Artist as Mystic: Conversations with Yahia Lababidi"(Onesuch Press)

Publications and Prizes

Books:

The Artist as Mystic: Conversations with Yahia Lababidi (Onesuch Press, 2012), Fever Dreams (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2011), Trial by Ink: From Nietzsche to Belly Dancing (Common Ground Publishing, 2010), Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street Press, 2008)

Anthologies:

Liberated Muse, Volume II: Betrayal Wears a Pretty Face (Outskirts Press, 2011), Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing (Pearson Longman, 2011), Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (Salmon Poetry, 2010), In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself - Volume 8 (MW Enterprises, 2010), Stranger at Home: American Poetry With An Accent (Numina Press, 2008), Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (Bloomsbury USA, 2007)

Journals:

Agni, Arena , Asia Writes, Being, Bidoun, Brand, Cerise Press, Cimarron Review, Gulf Coast, Harper's, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hotel Amerika, Leviathan, Mizna: Prose, Poetry, Art Exploring Arab America , Museum Views, New Internationalist, NPR, Orbis, Other Poetry, Philosophy Now, Prole, Raconteur, Rain Taxi, Red Fez, Serving House Journal, The Idler, The Literary Review, The Nervous Breakdown, The Pinch, The Tower Journal, The Wildean, Tikkun, World Literature Today

Prizes:

Poetry nominated for Pushcart Prize (2010)// Prose nominated for Best of the Web, Dzanc (2010)// Poetry Finalist, Emerging Writer Fellowship, Fall 2010 (The Writer's Center: www.writer.org)// "Signposts to Elsewhere" (Jane Street Press) selected for Books of the Year, 2008, by The Independent (UK)and Year in Books, 2007, by The Sun Sentinel (USA)// Films, by Swoon, based on poems of mine, shown at International Festivals: Mountaineer(USA), Experimental Film (Kroatia) Visible Verse (Vancouver) Vimfest (México) and Bideodromo (Spain) all in 2011.// Chosen as a Juror for the 2012 Neustadt International Prize for Literature -widely considered to be the most prestigious international prize after the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Yahia Lababidi Resume

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Listing last updated: November 23, 2012

More Information

Listed as:

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Arab American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

Arabic, English

Born in:

Cairo

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