Hayan Charara is the author of three poetry books, the forthcoming Something Sinister (Carnegie Mellon, 2016),The Sadness of Others (Carnegie Mellon, 2006), and The Alchemist's Diary (Hanging Loose, 2001). He also edited Inclined to Speak: an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry (University of Arkansas, 2008), and his children’s book, The Three Lucys (Lee & Low Books), about the 2006 July War, received the New Voices Award Honor and will be published in 2016. He is the recipient of a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment of Arts and the Lucille Joy Prize for poetry, and his poems, widely published in journals and anthologies and also translated into French and Arabic, have been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize. He earned his BA in English from Wayne State University in Detroit, a master's degree in Humanities from New York University, and a PhD from the University of Houston's Literature and Creative Writing Program. He has taught at the university level since 1998 and is currently a faculty member of the Honors College at the University of Houston. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Lebanese immigrants. After living in the United States for forty years, his father returned to Lebanon in 2004 and still lives there.
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