

Adele Ne Jame is Lebanese American and has lived in Hawai’i since 1969. She serves as Professor Emerita at Hawai’i Pacific University. Also, she served as the Poet-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published four books of poems and won many awards including a National Endowment for the Arts In Poetry, a Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, a Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize, and an Eliot Cades Award for Literature. Her poems have been exhibited at the Sharjah/Dubai Biennial and at the Arab American National Museum. She served as a Mikhail Series Lecturer at the University of Toledo in 2022.