Nuar Alsadir

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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] She was interviewed by Cathy Park Hong in BOMB Magazine. [9]

She has also appeared as part of the peer advisory group on Couples Therapy (2019 TV series).

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