Ruth Awad is a 2021 NEA Poetry Fellow and the author of Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the coeditor of The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry (Sundress Publications, 2020). Her work appears in POETRY, Poem-a-Day, The Believer, The New Republic, Pleiades, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2022
Guilt Me
There somehow exists a world without you full of lesser beasts. The mourning horses came with their laments and bridles, nuzzling the window, their breath obscuring the pane. I trailed […]
Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize
Fall 2023
2023 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Introduction
The Kenyon Review’s annual Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers was judged this year by acclaimed poet Ruth Awad. From more than fifteen hundred entries, Awad selected a winner […]
Jan/Feb 2022
All the Oranges of Tripoli
It is not enough for everything to stem from Lebanon—no, my father contends, it was Tripoli where oranges first originated, and if my sisters and I had any doubt— Just […]