Hedy Habra

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Hedy Habra
Native name
هيدي هبرا
Born Heliopolis, Egypt
OccupationPoet, professor, writer, literary critic
NationalityLebanon, Egypt, United States
Genrepoetry, fiction, literary criticism
Notable works Mundos alternos y artísticos en Vargas Llosa (2012), Flying Carpets (2013), Tea in Heliopolis (2013), "Under Brushstrokes" (2015) "The Taste of the Earth" (2019)
Website
hedyhabra.com

Hedy Habra is a Lebanese-American poet, professor, fiction writer, literary critic and essayist. Born in Heliopolis, Egypt, she lived in both Egypt and Lebanon, as well as Athens, Greece, and Brussels, Belgium, before settling in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she now resides.

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Prior to moving to the United States, Habra completed a B.S. in Pharmacy at the Faculté Française de Médecine et de Pharmacie of Beirut, S.J. She holds an M.A. and an M.F.A. in English and an M.A. and PhD in Spanish Literature, which were all granted by Western Michigan University, where she currently teaches.

Habra is an avid student of languages, and is fluent in French, Arabic, English, Spanish and Italian. She studied Greek and Latin at WMU and Mandarin Chinese at the WMU Confucius Institute, along with Chinese Ink Painting and Tai Chi. [1]

Recognition

Awards

The Taste of the Earth

  • 2019 USA Best Books Awards Finalist.

Under Brushstrokes

  • Finalist, 2016 International Books Awards, Poetry Category [2]
  • Finalist, 2016 USA Best Book Award, Poetry Category [3]
  • Nomination, 2016 Pushcart Prize, "How Much of Yourself Remains Within the Walls of a Home", "A Bird's Song, Unraveled", "Visiting my Mother in Montreal" [4]

Tea in Heliopolis

  • Winner, 2014 USA Best Book Award, Poetry Category
  • Finalist, 2014 International Poetry Book Award [4]

Flying Carpets

  • Winner, Honorable Mention, 2013 Arab American Book Award in Fiction [5]
  • Finalist, 2014 Eric Hoffer Book Award in Short Fiction
  • Finalist for the 2014 USA Best Book Award in Short Fiction [4]

Academic awards

Poetry

  • Tiferet Journal Poetry Contest Honorable Mention (2014): "I'd Like to Sing a Song of Freedom"
  • Pirene's Fountain Poetry Awards (2014): Monostich Poetry Contest Winner "Canvas", Four Lines Poetry Contest Winner "Resonance"
  • Nazim Hikmet Fourth Annual International Poetry Competition Winner (2012):"I Always Knew I was a Sybil at Heart," "Weaving and Unweaving", "Writing in Dust"
  • New Millennium Award Semi-finalists (2011–2012):"Shipwrecked," "Obsessive Compulsion"
  • Letras Femeninas Premio Victoria Urbano Winner (2007):"Mascarade," "Bricolage," "Simulacra," "Unborn," "Evening Walk"
  • Explicación de Textos Literarios Premio Spanish Press Winner (2005):"Bajo pinceladas," "El sol también tiene su lado oscuro," "Contrapunto"
  • Nimrod/Hardman Award, Pablo Neruda Prize Finalists (2003):"Tea at Chez Paul's," "Untold Tale(s) of Unfinished Tapestry," "Narguileh,""I had Never Seen a Dead Man Before," "Open-Air Cinema in Heliopolis,""A Triptych, Unraveled"
  • Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize Finalist (1999): "Raoucheh"
  • Linden Lane Magazine's English Poetry Prize Winner (1994):"Encounters," "Vanishing Shadow," "I Haven't Written a Poem in a Long Time"
  • Negative Capability's Eve of St. Agnes Award Finalist (1994): "A Glimpse of Fall"
  • Negative Capability's Eve of St. Agnes Award Finalist (1993): "To Henriette"
  • Negative Capability's Eve of St. Agnes Award Finalist (1992): "That Day in Heliopolis"
  • Robert Whiting Awards Finalists (1990): "Transience," "Raindrops" "The Communion"
  • Negative Capability's Eve of St. Agnes Award Finalists (1989): "Tea at Heliopolis," "The White Brass Bed," "Camera Lucida"
  • Linden Lane Magazine's English Poetry Prize, Third place (1989): "Waiting for Marie"
  • Linden Lane Magazine's English Poetry Prize Finalist (1987): "Immured," "Dive."
  • Journal Français d'Amérique Concours de Poèmes de Noël, Second place (1986): "Al Milad" [4]

Fiction

  • Letras Femeninas Premio Victoria Urbano Winner (2007): "Noor el Kamar"
  • New Voices Contest Honorable Mention (1993): "Mariam"
  • New Voices Contest Honorable Mention (1992): "Anemones Fingers" [4]

Grants

  • All-University Research & Creative Scholar Fellowship Award Western Michigan University (2006).
  • Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award Western Michigan University (2006).
  • Graduate Research Scholar & Creative Writing Award WMU Spanish Department (2006).
  • Graduate Research Scholar & Creative Writing Award WMU Languages & Linguistics Department (1993). [4]

Bibliography

Essays

Poetry

Books of poems

  • The Taste of the Earth, (Press 53 2019)
  • Tea in Heliopolis, (Press 53, Winston-Salem, NC, 2013. ISBN   9781935708766) [7]
  • Under Brushstrokes, (Press 53, Winston-Salem, NC, 2015. ISBN   9781941209233) [8] [9]

Published poems in print and online anthologies

  • Ars Moriendi Writings on the Art of Dying, Desmond Kong zhicheng-mingdé, Ed. "Obsessive compulsion," "The Memory of Unspoken Words," "Face à face," "The Ages of Man," "After the Storm," "To My Grandmother, Heliopolis, Egypt 1965," "Everything They Said" (2015) ISBN   9789810958084 [10]
  • BARED: Les Femmes Folles Anthology on Bras and Breasts, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Ed. "First Bra" (forthcoming 2016)
  • Come Together: Imagine Peace, Harmony Series, Bottom Dog Press. Philip Metres, Ann Smith and Larry Smith Eds. Blue Heron" (2008). ISBN   9781933964225 [11]
  • Conservation International Poetry Project: Melancholy and Memory
  • Söylesí Üç Aylik Suur Dergisi trans. into Turkish (2010).
  • FIRST WATER, The Best of Pirene's Fountain Anthology "Liberation Square," "Broken Ladder" (2013).
  • FULCRUM: An Anthology of Poetry and Aesthetics: "Silence" (2015)
  • Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry Hayan Charara, Ed. "Even the Sun has its Dark Side," "Milkweed," "Tea at Chez Paul's" (2008). ISBN   9781557288677*Mediterranean.nu (3 contributions) http://www.odyssey.pm/?p=1786
  • Nazim Hikmet Fourth Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival Poetry: A Chapbook of Talks and Poetry Award-Winning Poems "I Always Knew I was a Sybil at Heart," "Weaving and Unweaving" "Writing in Dust" (2012).
  • The Original Van Gogh's Ear Anthology "ATryptich: Visibile parlare in sotto voce" (2012).
  • Poetic Voices Without Borders Vol 2 Gival Press, Robert Giron, Ed,:

"El sol también tiene su lado oscuro," "Contrapunto," "Adagio por una viola d’amore olvidada," "Mapas," "Aquarelle," "Chute Libre," "Le café Turc," "Délire," "Filles du feu," "Niagara,"La vieille femme" (2009).

  • RAWI.org Featured Writer for the month May 2010
  • "Raoucheh," "Narguileh," "Open-Air Cinema in Heliopolis," "Salawat,"
  • "Tea at Chez Paul's," "Lost and Found."
  • Shake the Tree Anthology Vol 2, Kelle Grace Gaddis, Ed. (2016) Ten poems by Hedy Habra.
  • SilverBirch Press: Where I live Poetry Series Anthology "Blue Heron" (2015).
  • SilverBirch Press: I am Waiting Poetry Series Anthology "Waiting in a Field of Melted Honey" (2014).
  • Sunrise from Blue Thunder Japan Anthology "Aftershocks in Fukushima," Hokusai's The Great Wave" (2011).
  • Women's Voices for Change Rebecca Foust, Ed. "Tea at Chez Paul's" (2015). [12]

Short stories

Literary criticism

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