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Before immigrating to the United States, and landing in Colorado twenty plus years ago, Nawal grew up in Accra and East Beirut and lived in Hamburg, London, and Hawaii. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Bayou Magazine, Fence, Texas Review, AMP: Hofstra’s Journal of Digital Literature, Grist Journal (2017 ProForma Contest Finalist), By&By Poetry, Progenitor Art & Literary Journal, Rogue Agent, and The Elephants.net. Her poem “That I remember” was nominated Sundress Publications' 2017 Best of the Net. Her manuscript, A Hemmed Remnant was a finalist in the 2018 Ron Sillerman Prize for African Poets by the University of Nebraska Press. Nawal earned an MFA in Poetry from the Mile-High MFA at Regis University, and also holds a BA in English with secondary education, and an MA in Curriculum and Instruction. In the past she taught English, authored high school curriculum and graduate professional development courses, and was the Instructional Coordinator of eLearning in St. Vrain Valley Schools. Nawal is an adjunct professor in Front Range Community College’s Department of English and the founding editor-in-chief of Inverted Syntax. She lives in Boulder County with her children, husband, and adopted beagles. Find her @nawalnader or visit nawalnader.com.
Recommended Books
Kith, Divya Victor
I love artists: new and selected poems, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Nox, Anne Carson
Hymn for the Black Terrific: Poems, Kiki Petrosino
Curves to the Apple, Rosmarie Waldrop
Whereas, Layli Long Soldier
Dandarians: poems, Lee Ann Roripaugh
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, Mary Ruefle
39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance, Matthew Goulish
Poetics of Relation, Édouard Glissant
Andrea Rexilius, Eric Baus and J.Michael Martinez are her go-to poets. At her side is always a copy of a Rexilius work and she is currently rereading and taking her time with To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation. Her reading playlist also includes (on repeat), Baus’s The To Sound, Martinez’s In the Garden of the Bridehouse and Khadijah Queen’s Conduit.
Recommended Books
Kith, Divya Victor
I love artists: new and selected poems, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Nox, Anne Carson
Hymn for the Black Terrific: Poems, Kiki Petrosino
Curves to the Apple, Rosmarie Waldrop
Whereas, Layli Long Soldier
Dandarians: poems, Lee Ann Roripaugh
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, Mary Ruefle
39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance, Matthew Goulish
Poetics of Relation, Édouard Glissant
Andrea Rexilius, Eric Baus and J.Michael Martinez are her go-to poets. At her side is always a copy of a Rexilius work and she is currently rereading and taking her time with To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation. Her reading playlist also includes (on repeat), Baus’s The To Sound, Martinez’s In the Garden of the Bridehouse and Khadijah Queen’s Conduit.
