Carol N. Fadda is from Beirut, Lebanon, and is currently associate professor of English at Syracuse University. Her research and teaching focus on Arab-American literature and cultures, critical race and ethnic studies, as well as transnational and diaspora studies. She is the author of <a href="http://nyupress.org/books/9781479804313/">Contemporary Arab American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Home and Belonging</a> (NYU Press, 2014).

Carol N. Fadda

There Is a Country to Be Built: A Conversation with Jess Rizkallah, Winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Carol N. Fadda is from Beirut, Lebanon, and is currently associate professor of English at Syracuse University. Her research and teaching focus on Arab-American literature and cultures, critical race and ethnic studies, as well as transnational and diaspora studies. She is the author of <a href="http://nyupress.org/books/9781479804313/">Contemporary Arab American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Home and Belonging</a> (NYU Press, 2014).