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Ruth Awad

RUTH AWAD is an award-winning Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection, Set to Music a Wildfire, won the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press. She is the recipient of a 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and her work has appeared in New Republic, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Sixth Finch, Crab Orchard Review, CALYX, Diode, Southern Indiana Review, The Adroit Journal, Vinyl Poetry, Epiphany, Drunken Boat, Atticus Review, and in the anthologies The Hundred Years’ War: Modern War Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2014), New Poetry from the Midwest 2014 (New American Press, 2015), and Poets on Growth (Math Paper Press, 2015). She won the 2012 and 2013 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and the 2011 Copper Nickel Poetry Contest, and she was a finalist for the 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. She has an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and she is the blog editor at Agape Editions. She writes and lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, two Pomeranians, and two ungrateful bunnies.

Contributor Bios for Issue 13 Summer 2018

July 1, 2018 Contributed By: Alice B. Fogel, Barbara Kreader Skalinder, Carolyn Oliver, Deborah Flanagan, Epiphany Knedler, Eric Barnes, Hanif Abdurraqib, Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio, Jane O. Wayne, Janette Schafer, Jerome Richard, Joshua Bernstein, Katherine Riegel, Kevin Rabas, Marc Frazier, Matt Whelihan, Michael Parker-Stainback, Michael T. Young, Mirza Sakit, Murad Jalilov, Nandini Dhar, Risa Shargel, Roy Bentley, Ruth Awad, Sergio Ortiz, Stanislav Stratiev, Stephen Gibson, Thomas Jacobs, Tom Larsen, Tori Grant Welhouse

Issue 13 Summer 2018 HANIF ABDURRAQIB is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, was released in […]

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Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad: Joy Is Not Promised to You

July 1, 2018 Contributed By: Hanif Abdurraqib, Ruth Awad

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full-length poetry collection The Crown Ain’t Worth […]

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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 13 Summer 2018

July 1, 2018 Contributed By: Alice B. Fogel, Barbara Kreader Skalinder, Carolyn Oliver, Deborah Flanagan, Epiphany Knedler, Eric Barnes, Hanif Abdurraqib, Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio, Jane O. Wayne, Janette Schafer, Jerome Richard, Joshua Bernstein, Katherine Riegel, Kevin Rabas, Marc Frazier, Matt Whelihan, Michael Parker-Stainback, Michael T. Young, Mirza Sakit, Murad Jalilov, Nandini Dhar, Risa Shargel, Roy Bentley, Ruth Awad, Sergio Ortiz, Stanislav Stratiev, Stephen Gibson, Thomas Jacobs, Tom Larsen, Tori Grant Welhouse

INTERVIEWS Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad Joy Is Not Promised to You ESSAYS Joshua Bernstein The Gospel of Dearth Tom Larsen The Nightmare Next Door Jerome Richard Good and Decent People Janette Schafer The Miracle of Ordinary FICTION Eric Barnes Time Space Thomas Jacobs The Death of Z Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio Fighting for His […]

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Contributor Bios for Issue 12 Winter 2018

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Amy Sawyer, Bilal Shaw, Brian Kamsoke, Brian Satrom, C. Kubasta, Clarisse Francillon, Darren Demaree, David Bowen, David Macey, Devon Balwit, Divya Rajan, Donna Pucciani, Eric Shonkwiler, Erinn Seifert, Evan Baden, Ghalib, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Hedy Habra, Ian Haight, J. Kates, James Brunton, Jesse DeLong, Jesse Tangen-Mills, José Daniel García, Julian Cola, Karl-Heinz Ott, Kevin J.B. O'Connor, Leonard Kress, Liz Egan, M.A. Istvan Jr., Malcolm Cumming, Martial, Martyna Buliżańska, Matthew Guenette, Michelle Bailat-Jones, Mollie Boutell, Nicholas Manning, Nick Conrad, Pamela Miller, Peter Burzynski, Peter Woltemade, Robert Cowan, Robert Joe Stout, Robert Nazarene, Rush Rankin, Ruth Awad, Sergio Ballouk, Stephen Gibson, Tatiana Neshumova, Todd Osborne, Tony Barnstone

Issue 12 Winter 2018 RUTH AWAD is an award-winning Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection, Set to Music a Wildfire, won the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press. She is the recipient of a 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and her work has appeared in New Republic, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Sixth […]

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My Father Dreams of a New Country
by Ruth Awad

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Ruth Awad

Lebanon, 1978 America, I see through your glass— I reach my hand and my fingerprints are everywhere. Like leaves the gust blows in. I don’t have money to feed your fountains or enough water that it’s never a wish, but America, I can’t stop drinking you in. Your trains, their freight like hours, like the […]

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My Father Is the Sea, the Field, the Stone
by Ruth Awad

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Ruth Awad

I don’t know what makes a country a country. If the sea softening an edge of land is enough to say, this is mine and that is yours. There were nights in Tripoli when there was room for us. When the sky pulled up the wings of gulls and we watched their bodies rise from […]

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Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion
by Ruth Awad

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Ruth Awad

In the beginning, there was an angel with cloven feet who stood by me, and the angel said, My wings are an ocean, and its shoulders split until feathers fell around us. This is how you leave your country. On the back of an ocean. Choked with feathers. _ If someone gives you water, drink. And if […]

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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 12 Winter 2018

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Amy Sawyer, Bilal Shaw, Brian Kamsoke, Brian Satrom, C. Kubasta, Clarisse Francillon, Darren Demaree, David Bowen, David Macey, Devon Balwit, Divya Rajan, Donna Pucciani, Eric Shonkwiler, Erinn Seifert, Evan Baden, Ghalib, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Hedy Habra, Ian Haight, J. Kates, James Brunton, Jesse DeLong, Jesse Tangen-Mills, José Daniel García, Julian Cola, Karl-Heinz Ott, Kevin J.B. O'Connor, Leonard Kress, Liz Egan, M.A. Istvan Jr., Malcolm Cumming, Martial, Martyna Buliżańska, Matthew Guenette, Michelle Bailat-Jones, Mollie Boutell, Nicholas Manning, Nick Conrad, Pamela Miller, Peter Burzynski, Peter Woltemade, Robert Cowan, Robert Joe Stout, Robert Nazarene, Rush Rankin, Ruth Awad, Sergio Ballouk, Stephen Gibson, Tatiana Neshumova, Todd Osborne, Tony Barnstone

INTERVIEWS Eric Shonkwiler interviewed by David Bowen Power & Light Juan Gelacio interviewed by Robert Joe Stout Invisible on Paper ESSAYS Leonard Kress What Kind of Parent Lets a Thirteen-Year-Old Cancel Her Bat Mitzvah? Erinn Seifert Changing FICTION Mollie Boutell Intimates Malcolm Cumming Mere Anarchy Liz Egan Sgt. Lawson Brian Kamsoke Useful Things POETRY Ruth […]

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