Visiting Writer: Fady Joudah

Presented in Partnership with Fall For the Book

Wednesday, October 7, 2026 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Fenwick Library, #2001

Presented in partnership with Fall For the Book, The Fall 2026 Visiting Writers Series continues with Fady Joudah, poet and the author of […]. He has also published seven other collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; Tethered to Stars; and Exhibit G.

Joudah has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, he has received the Jackson Poetry Prize, a PEN award, the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, the Griffin Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Arab American Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Prize, and the American Book Award. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.