About
Summer Awad is a multigenre writer of Palestinian descent, born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. She currently lives in Ames, Iowa, where she is in the final year of her MFA in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. She received a 2023 LANDO Grant from the de Groot Foundation for immigration, refugee, and migration writing. Her play, Walls: A Play for Palestine, was produced at The New York International Fringe Festival in 2016. Her poetry has appeared in About Place, Exposition Review, and others, with an essay forthcoming in J Journal.
