Lenna Jawdat is a poet, writer, and psychotherapist of Palestinian and Iraqi descent. Her work, which often explores themes of trauma, identity, and resilience, is published or forthcoming in Massachusetts Review, Asian American Writer’s Workshop, Poet Lore, Passengers Journal, Chapter House Journal, and elsewhere. She was a 2021 Best of the Net nominee for her poem “Ode to the Psoas,” a Sundress Academy for the Arts summer resident in 2023, and attended Tin House Writing Workshop for poetry in 2021 and 2024 and creative nonfiction in 2022. Lenna received her MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2024.
Her first book, 70,000, a hybrid collection of poetry, nonfiction, and visual elements, examines the impact of the theft and destruction of 70,000 books and is currently on submission with publishers. Lenna lives in DC with her partner and two cats. You can read more of her work at lennajawdat.wordpress.com.
Lenna is represented by Amanda Orozco.
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