Ruth Awad
Ruth Awad is a Lebanese American poet, 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024) and Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Michael a recently appear in Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, AGNI, The Believer, New Republic, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, published in association with the...See more
Ruth Awad is a Lebanese American poet, 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024) and Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Michael a recently appear in Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, AGNI, The Believer, New Republic, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, published in association with the Library of Congress (Milkweed Editions, 2024). Her poems have alsoYou Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World edited by US Poet Laureate Ada Limón and2020 and 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Widely anthologized, her poems mostAlongside Rachel Mennies, she is the co-editor of The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry. She is the recipient ofWaters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. See less