Sara Elkamel
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| Notable works | Field of No Justice |
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Sara Elkamel is an Egyptian poet, journalist, and translator based in Cairo.[1][2] She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Field of No Justice and Garden City, and has translated work by Mona Kareem and Dalia Taha from Arabic into English.[2][3][4]
Education and career
Elkamel earned an MA in journalism from Columbia University and an MFA in poetry from New York University.[1][2] Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Yale Review, Poetry London, and other literary journals.[1]
Her first chapbook Field of No Justice was included in the 2021 New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nane), published by the African Poetry Book Fund and Akashic Books.[5] In 2021, The Common published an interview with Elkamel about the chapbook and images that recur in her poems.[6] Her second chapbook, Garden City, was the 2025 prize winner in Beloit Poetry Journal's Chad Walsh Chapbook Series.[7][8].
Translation
Elkamel translated Mona Kareem's I Will Not Fold These Maps, published by the Poetry Translation Centre in 2023 as part of its World Poet Series.[3] In 2023, Asymptote published an interview with Elkamel about translating Kareem's poems to English.[9]
Elkamel's English translation of Dalia Taha's Enter World is scheduled for publication by Graywolf Press in November 2026.[4] In 2025, Elkamel's translations of two poems by Taha won the Columbia Journal Online Translation Contest.[10]
Recognition
In 2020, The Adroit Journal named Elkamel a Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry.[11] Her poem "The Sleeper" was published by The Southeast Review as the 2023 Gearhart Poetry Contest winner.[12]
Selected works
Poetry chapbooks
- Field of No Justice. African Poetry Book Fund and Akashic Books, 2021.[5][13]
- Garden City. Beloit Poetry Journal, 2025.[7][8][14]
Translations
- Mona Kareem, I Will Not Fold These Maps. Translated from Arabic by Sara Elkamel. Poetry Translation Centre, 2023.[3]
- Dalia Taha, Enter World. Translated from Arabic by Sara Elkamel. Graywolf Press, scheduled 2026.[4]
Translations
- Mona Kareem, I Will Not Fold These Maps. Translated from Arabic by Sara Elkamel. Poetry Translation Centre, 2023.[3]
- Dalia Taha, Enter World. Translated from Arabic by Sara Elkamel. Graywolf Press, scheduled 2026.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Sara Elkamel". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Sara Elkamel". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "I Will Not Fold These Maps". Poetry Translation Centre. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Enter World". Graywolf Press. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nane)". African Poetry Book Fund. Brown University. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ Burshteyn, Sasha (13 September 2021). "Birds, Language, and the Desire for Repair: An Interview with Sara Elkamel". The Common. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Garden City". Beloit Poetry Journal. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Sara Elkamel's "Garden City" Available Now". Beloit Poetry Journal. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ Al-Jamri, Ali (27 September 2023). "Loss, Subversion and Womanhood: An Interview with Sara Elkamel, Translator of I Will Not Fold These Maps by Mona Kareem". Asymptote. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ "Two Poems by Dalia Taha, tr. by Sara Elkamel (Winner of the 2025 Online Translation Contest)". Columbia Journal. 25 June 2025. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ "The Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program". The Adroit Journal. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ "42.2 Sara Elkamel". The Southeast Review. 16 October 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ "Explore the poetic beauty of the human experience with Field of No Justice". EnterpriseAM. 25 October 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
- ↑ Saliba, Samia. "30 New SWANA Books to Read in 2026". Mizna. Retrieved 29 April 2026.
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