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    Zeina Hashem Beck

    Zeina Hashem Beck is the author of O (Penguin Books, 2022), which won the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Poetry and was named a Best Book of the Year by Literary Hub and The New York Public Library. She’s also the author of Louder Than Hearts (Bauhan Publishing, 2017) and To Live in Autumn (The Backwaters Press, 2014), as well as the chapbooks 3arabi Song (Rattle, 2016) and There Was and How Much There Was (smith|doorstop, 2016). Her debut nonfiction, Sublingual: Failing in an Other’s Language, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books in fall 2027. Educated in Arabic, English, and French, Zeina has a BA and an MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut. Her poem “Maqam” won Poetry’s 2017 Frederick Bock Prize, and her work appeared in The Nation, Lithub, the Academy of American Poets, LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. She grew up in Lebanon and currently resides and teaches in the Bay Area.
    This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty
    This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty
    40 Sonnets
    Zeina Hashem Beck
    9780143139133
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 02, 2027
    Penguin Books
    O
    O
    Zeina Hashem Beck
    9780143136897
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Jul 05, 2022
    Penguin Books

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    This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty
    This Was Supposed to Be About Beauty
    40 Sonnets
    Zeina Hashem Beck
    9780143139133
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 02, 2027
    Penguin Books
    O
    O
    Zeina Hashem Beck
    9780143136897
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Jul 05, 2022
    Penguin Books

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