Huda Fakhreddine

Huda J. Fakhreddine is a writer, translator, and Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (Brill, 2015) and The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry (Routledge, 2023). Her translations include Lighthouse for the Drowning (BOA editions, 2017), The Sky That Denied Me: Selections from Jawdat Fakhreddine (University of Texas Press, 2020), The Universe, All at Once: Selections from Salim Barakat (Seagull Books, 2024), and Palestinian: Four Poems by Ibrahim Nasrallah (World Poetry Books, 2024). Her creative writings in Arabic include a book of creative non-fiction titled Zaman saghīr taḥt shams thāniya (A Brief Time under a Different Sun, 2019) and a poetry collection titled Wa min thamma al-ālam (And then the World, 2025). She is co-editor of Middle Eastern Literatures and an editor of the Library of Arabic Literature.