Khaled Mattawa

Khaled Mattawa is a poet, writer and translator. His collections of poetry include Fugitive Atlas, Tocqueville, and Amorisco. He is also the author of the chapbook collection Mare Nostrum and Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation.

Mattawa has also translated many volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry and coedited two anthologies of Arab American literature. His books of translation include Adonis: Selected Poems, Miracle Maker, Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi, and Without An Alphabet, Without A Face: Selected Poems of Saadi Youssef.

Mattawa has received an an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship, among other awards. A Chancellor Emeritus, he teaches in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mattawa holds an MA in English and an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University, as well as a Ph.D. from Duke University.