Emily Drumsta Editor & Author

Nazik al-Malaika was an Iraqi poet and writer, best known as one of the pioneers of `free verse' poetry in Arabic. Over the course of a career spanning nearly four decades, she published seven poetry collections, four full-length works of literary criticism, and dozens of articles in the most widely read Arabic literary periodicals of the time. Her poetic theories influenced poets in her native Iraq and beyond, reaching as far as Amman, Beirut, Cairo, and Algiers. Emily Drumsta is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. She has published articles in Research in African Literatures, Social Text and Middle Eastern Literatures, and has a chapter in the forthcoming volume The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation. Her translations from Arabic have also appeared in McSweeney's, Asymptote, Jadaliyya, and ArabLit. She was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Grant for Revolt Against the Sun.