Sarah Aziza is a Palestinian American writer, translator, and artist with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah, Gaza. Her work emerges from a confluence of ancestral and contemporary wisdoms, exploring the insurgent possibilities of the fugitive, marginalized, silent, and fragmentary. She is the author of the genre-bending memoir, The Hollow Half, winner of the Palestine Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Award and Lambda Literary Award. Aziza’s journalism, poetry, essays, and experimental nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best American Essays, The Baffler, Harper’s Magazine, Mizna, The Intercept, The Guardian, and The Nation, among other publications. She has received fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, the Pulitzer Center, United States Artists, Asian American Writers Workshop, Tin House, and others. She currently lives on unceded Canarsie and Munsee Lenape land where she makes, learns, and works towards liberation for Palestine and beyond.
At MacDowell, Aziza began drafts of two forthcoming, hybrid works of poetry and prose. She also experimented with new, cross-disciplinary visual work exploring the political valences of grief.
Sarah Aziza
Studios
Star
Sarah Aziza worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts…