Sinan Antoon

Sinan Antoon is a professor, poet, novelist, essayist, and translator. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in Aljazeera.com, The New York Times, The Nation, Journal of Arabic Literature, The Massachusetts Review, World Literature Today, and Ploughshares, among others. He is the author of The Baghdad Blues (2007) and the translator of Mahmoud Darwish’s The Presence of Absence (2011) and a selection of Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef’s late work, Nostalgia; My Enemy (2012).