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American poet

Elmaz Abinader (born 1954 in Pennsylvania) is an American author, poet, performer, English professor at Mills College and co-founder of the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA).

She is of Lebanese descent. In 2000, she received the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for her poetry collection In the Country of My Dreams....

Life

Born in a small coal mining community in southwest Pennsylvania, she lived with her parents and her five siblings in a household strongly rooted in Lebanese tradition.

On this page, you'll find information about the published works of Elmaz Abinader, including her most recent release: This House, My Bones (Aquarius.

Elmaz Abinader has been an influential voice in American Literature for almost two decades.

Elmaz Abinader is an Arab-American author, poet, and performance artist whose work has appeared throughout the United States and the Middle East.

Elmaz Abinader was born in a small mining town in Pennsylvania, the youngest of four children, to parents who immigrated from Lebanon to the United States.

She is the author of Egyptian.

She spent her childhood helping out her family's store,^[1] attending Catholic church twice a day, and focusing on her schooling. Abinader and her siblings faced challenges due to their ethnicity.^[2]

Abinader received her B.A.

in Writing and Communication from University of Pittsburgh in 1974. It was during this time that she embrace her heritage and wrote about her family’s history. She earned her MFA in Poetry from C