{"id":3635,"date":"2018-07-20T19:27:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T19:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/elmaz-abinader\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T14:12:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:12:44","slug":"elmaz-abinader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/elmaz-abinader\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmaz Abinader"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Elmaz Abinader<\/a> is an author and a performer. Her most recent poetry collection, This House, My Bones<\/em>, was The Editor’s Selection for 2014 from Willow Books\/Aquarius. Her books include a memoir: Children of the Roojme, A Family’s Journey from Lebanon, <\/em>a book of poetry, In the Country of My Dreams… <\/em>which won the Oakland PEN, Josephine Miles Award. Recently she was awarded a Trailblazer Award by RAWI (Radius of Arab Writers International)  Her plays include Ramadan Moon, 32 Mohammeds, <\/em>and Country of Origin<\/em>. She has been a frequent contributor to Al-Jazeera English. She has been anthologized widely including the New Anthology of American Poetry, <\/em>and in The Colors of Natur<\/em><\/p>\n

She has been a fellow at residencies in Marfa (Lannan) Macedonia, Brazil, Spain and Egypt and a Senior Fulbright Fellow.  Her teaching includes Master Workshops for Hedgebrook In India as well as for VORTEXT. Elmaz is one of the co-founders of The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA\/Voices) a writing workshop for writers-of-color. She teaches at Mills College, is a fitness instructor at the Oakland Y, and lives in Oakland with her husband Anthony Byers.<\/p>\n

Her latest book of poetry is This House My Bones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Her daily walk through the Redwoods.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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