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A.D. Lauren-Abunassar
(she/hers) is a Palestinian-Irish-American writer. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Rattle, Narrative, Boulevard, and elsewhere. She was a 2020 finalist for a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and the winner of the 2023 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She once (accidentally) set a lawn mower on fire. Her favorite words are replete & raincoat. Her first book is forthcoming fall 2023.
Selected Awards & Honors
2023 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, The University of Arkansas Press, Winner
2022 Poetry Society of American Emily Dickinson Award (finalist)
2021 Frontier Poetry New Voices Contest, 2nd place
2021 Cow Creek Chapbook Prize finalist
2020 Finalist Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship
2020 Winner Palette Emerging Poet Contest
2020 Finalist Narrative 30 below 30 contest
Pushcart Prize nomination “Shadhavar”
Pushcart Prize nomination “(21)”
2019 Second place Slippery Elm Deanna Tulley Multimedia Prize
2019 Winner Boulevard Emerging Writers Contest
2020 Iowa New Zealand Exchange Fellowship
2019 Finalist Indiana Review 1/2 K Contest
2019 Finalist Annual Narrative Poetry Contest
2019 Semifinalist Pleiades Press Editors Prize
2019 Finalist, Emerging Woman Writer Chapbook Contest, Finishing Line Press
2019 Finalist for a Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry
2019 Top Four alternate/finalist for a Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
2019 Semi Finalist Frost Place Chapbook Competition
2018/19 Fulbright Finalist (Ireland)
2018 Nominated for The Best New Poets Anthology
2018 Finalist/ Honorable Mention in the New South Poetry Contest
2018 Finalist/Honorable Mention in the Cincinnati Review Poetry Contest
2018 Finalist/Honorable Mention in the Comstock Review Poetry Contest
2017 Academy of American Poets Prize Honorable Mention
2017 Fellowship from the Bucknell Seminar for Young Poets
(she/hers) is a Palestinian-Irish-American writer. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Rattle, Narrative, Boulevard, and elsewhere. She was a 2020 finalist for a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and the winner of the 2023 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She once (accidentally) set a lawn mower on fire. Her favorite words are replete & raincoat. Her first book is forthcoming fall 2023.
Selected Awards & Honors
2023 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, The University of Arkansas Press, Winner
2022 Poetry Society of American Emily Dickinson Award (finalist)
2021 Frontier Poetry New Voices Contest, 2nd place
2021 Cow Creek Chapbook Prize finalist
2020 Finalist Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship
2020 Winner Palette Emerging Poet Contest
2020 Finalist Narrative 30 below 30 contest
Pushcart Prize nomination “Shadhavar”
Pushcart Prize nomination “(21)”
2019 Second place Slippery Elm Deanna Tulley Multimedia Prize
2019 Winner Boulevard Emerging Writers Contest
2020 Iowa New Zealand Exchange Fellowship
2019 Finalist Indiana Review 1/2 K Contest
2019 Finalist Annual Narrative Poetry Contest
2019 Semifinalist Pleiades Press Editors Prize
2019 Finalist, Emerging Woman Writer Chapbook Contest, Finishing Line Press
2019 Finalist for a Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry
2019 Top Four alternate/finalist for a Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
2019 Semi Finalist Frost Place Chapbook Competition
2018/19 Fulbright Finalist (Ireland)
2018 Nominated for The Best New Poets Anthology
2018 Finalist/ Honorable Mention in the New South Poetry Contest
2018 Finalist/Honorable Mention in the Cincinnati Review Poetry Contest
2018 Finalist/Honorable Mention in the Comstock Review Poetry Contest
2017 Academy of American Poets Prize Honorable Mention
2017 Fellowship from the Bucknell Seminar for Young Poets