Sam Hamod
Born and raised in Gary, Indiana, poet Sam Hamod earned a BS and an MA at Northwestern University and a PhD at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Identifying as an Arab American, Hamod frequently deals with personal and cultural identity in his poetry. His numerous poetry collections include Just Love Poems for You (2006), The Arab Poems, The Muslim Poems (2000), which won the Ethnic Prize in Poetry, and Dying with the Wrong Name: New and Selected Poems 1968–1980 (1980), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His work has been featured in numerous anthologies, including Unsettling America (1994).
Hamod’s honors include awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Friends of Literature Ferguson Award, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Award in Poetry, and a Larry Neal Award in Poetry. He has taught at Iowa, Princeton, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Wisconsin, Valparaiso and Howard Universities. Overseas, he has taught in Lebanon, Turkey, Spain, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Hamod is founding editor of Third World News, founder and editor of Contemporary World Poetry and Contemporary World Literature, and former director of the Islamic Center in Washington, DC, and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Hamod’s honors include awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Friends of Literature Ferguson Award, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Award in Poetry, and a Larry Neal Award in Poetry. He has taught at Iowa, Princeton, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Wisconsin, Valparaiso and Howard Universities. Overseas, he has taught in Lebanon, Turkey, Spain, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Hamod is founding editor of Third World News, founder and editor of Contemporary World Poetry and Contemporary World Literature, and former director of the Islamic Center in Washington, DC, and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.