Nathalie Handal is from Bethlehem, Palestine. She grew up in France, Latin America and the Arab world, and was educated in the United Kingdom and the USA. Handal’s recent books include the flash collection The Republics, which Patricia Smith lauds as “one of the most inventive books by one of today’s most diverse writers”; The Invisible Star; Poet in Andalucía; and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award. She is a Lannan Foundation Fellow, winner of the Alejo Zuloaga Order in Literature, and Honored Finalist for the Gift of Freedom Award. Handal is a professor at Columbia University and writes the literary travel column The City and the Writer for Words without Borders. (photo credit: Linda Källérusp)

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