Extended Artist Bio:

George Abraham is a Palestinian-American Poet, Author, and Engineering PhD candidate at Harvard University. He is the author of the poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry 2020), as well as the chapbooks al youm: for yesterday & her inherited traumas, winner of the Atlas Review's 2017 chapbook contest, and the specimen's apology, forthcoming with Sibling Rivalry Press in 2019. He is the recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, the Poetry Foundation Incubator, the Watering Hole, and Brooklyn Poets, and is the winner of the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Prize, selected by Tommy Pico, as well as the title of "Best Poet" at the 2017 College Union Poetry Slam Invitational. His poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in several journals including The Paris Review, Tin House, Boston Review, the Rumpus, Beloit Poetry Jourbal, LitHub, Nashville Review, Washington Square Review, Mizna, Puerto del Sol, and anthologies such as Nepantla, Bettering American Poetry, Beyond Memory: an Anthology of Arab American Creative Nonfiction, and the Ghassan Kanafani Palestinian Literature Anthology. He is currently a reader & editor for Muzzle Magazine and the Atlas Review,  as well as a founding editor of Lion Lost Press. He has competed in several poetry slam competitions, including the Individual World Poetry Slam, National Poetry Slam, and College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (where he placed 2nd internationally in 2016). He is a Puschart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net nominee, and a recipient of the Lois Morrell Poetry Prize, and the Favianna Rodriguez Award for Artistic Activism. He currently lives in Boston, where he serves as a teaching artist mentoring the University of Massachusetts - Boston CUPSI team.