Sinan Antoon

Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, translator and scholar. He has published two collections of poetry and five novels. His most recent work is Postcards from the Underworld (Seagull Books, 2023).  His scholarly works include The Poetics of the Obscene in Pre-Modern Arabic Literature and numerous articles on modern Arabic poetry and contemporary Iraqi culture. His essays and creative writings in Arabic have appeared in various journals in the Arab world and in English in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Journal of Palestine Studies, and Critical Times. His literary translations from Arabic include Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence. He is associate professor at the Gallatin School, New York University. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya.