Job title:
2020 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Bio/CV:
Nathalie Khankan is the author of quiet orient riot (Fall 2020), winner of Omnidawn’s 2019 1st/2nd Book Prize, selected by Dawn Lundy Martin. Her work appears in the Berkeley Poetry Review, jubilat, The Volta, and Crab Creek Review. Straddling Danish, Finnish, Syrian and Palestinian homes and heirlooms, Nathalie currently lives in San Francisco. She teaches Arabic language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley.
Natalie was an ARC Fellow in Spring & Fall 2020 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Community Fellow category.