Nuar Alsadir

Nuar Alsadir (born New Haven, Connecticut) is an American poet and psychoanalyst. She was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize for Poetry. ^[1] Animal Joy, her nonfiction debut, was a TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2022 ^[2] and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022. ^[3]

Her work has appeared in 'The Paris Review , ^[4] The New York Times Magazine , ^[5] LitHub ^[6] The Yale Review ., ^[7] and Granta. ^[8] Her essay, "On Boredom," ^[9] originally published in Granta, was selected for inclusion in 'The Best American Essays 2025' edited by Jia Tolentino. She was interviewed by Cathy Park Hong in BOMB Magazine. ^[10]

She has also appeared as part of the peer advisory group on Couples Therapy .

Works

• More Shadow Than Bird (Salt Publishing, 2012).
• Fourth Person Singular (Liverpool University Press, 2017)
• Animal Joy, (Graywolf Press/ FItzcarraldo Editions, 2022) ISBN   978-1-64445-093-2 ^{[11] [12] [13]}

References

1. "Nuar Alsadir". forwardartsfoundation.org.
2. "'Animal Joy' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2022". Time. 2022-11-14. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
3. "Best Books 2022: Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
4. "Corpsing: On Sex, Death, and Inappropriate Laughter". 16 June 2022.
5. Alsadir, Nuar (17 November 2002). "LIVES; Invisible Woman". The New York Times.
6. "Nuar Alsadir: The Craft of Writing Empathy". 6 November 2018.
7. "Nuar Alsadir: "We Are Our Choices"". The Yale Review. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
8. "Nuar Alsadir". Granta. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
9. Warmelo, Aea Varfis-van (2024-04-25). "On Boredom". Granta. Retrieved 2025-12-24.
10. "BOMB Magazine | Nuar Alsadir Interviewed". BOMB Magazine. 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
11. "A book on laughter and how it brings out our most authentic selves". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
12. "Animal Joy by Nuar Alsadir review – is laughter the best medicine?". the Guardian. 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
13. "Review | 'Animal Joy' is a necessary reminder of laughter's cathartic nature". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2022-09-02.