Nada Faris

Nada Faris is a Kuwaiti writer and performance poet known as "Kuwait's Finest." She is an Honorary Fellow in Writing at Iowa University's International Writing Program (IWP), USA. In 2015, she became a member of the board of trustees for Kuwait's Cultural Circle Prize for the Arabic Short Story (Almultaqa), the Arab world's first international award for short story collections in Arabic. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in The Norton Anthology of Hint Fiction, Economic...See more

Nada Faris is a Kuwaiti writer and performance poet known as "Kuwait's Finest." She is an Honorary Fellow in Writing at Iowa University's International Writing Program (IWP), USA. In 2015, she became a member of the board of trustees for Kuwait's Cultural Circle Prize for the Arabic Short Story (Almultaqa), the Arab world's first international award for short story collections in Arabic. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in The Norton Anthology of Hint Fiction, Economic and Political Weekly, Fanack Chronicle of the Middle East & North Africa, The Operating System, Sukoon, The Indianola Review, and more. See less