{"id":663,"count":1,"description":"\"\"Omar Sabbagh is a very widely published poet, writer and critic. Over the last two decades, his poetry has appeared in many prestigious venues, such as: Poetry Review, PN Review, Agenda, Acumen, New Humanist, (T&F) New Writing, The Reader Magazine, Stand, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Banipal, The Warwick Review, The Wolf Magazine, Poetry Wales<\/em>, among many others. He has published six poetry collections and one pamphlet with Cinnamon Press, including My Only Ever Oedipal Complaint <\/em>(2010), Morning Lit: Portals After Alia <\/em>(2022) and For Echo <\/em>(2024). His Beirut novella, Via Negativa: A Parable of Exile<\/em>, was published with Liquorice Fish Books in March 2016; and his Dubai novella, Minutes from the Miracle City<\/em> was published with Fairlight Books in July 2019.\u00a0 He has published much short fiction, too, some of it prize-winning. A study of the oeuvre of Professor Fiona Sampson, Reading Fiona Sampson: A Study in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics<\/em>, was published with Anthem Press in 2020, and was released in revised, paperback edition at the end of 2021. His book of Lebanese verse narratives, Cedar: Scenes from Lebanese Life<\/em>, was published with Northside House in summer of 2023; and a collection of his published short fictions, Y Knots<\/em>, was published with Liquorice Fish Books in autumn of 2023.\u00a0\u00a0 He holds a BA in PPE from Oxford, three MA\u2019s, in English Literature, Creative and Life Writing, and Philosophy, all from the University of London, and a PhD in English Literature from KCL. From 2011-2013 he was Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the American University of Beirut (AUB); and he taught at the American University in Dubai (AUD), where he was Associate Professor of English from 2014-2024.\u00a0 From Fall 2024 he begins a new teaching role at the Lebanese American University (LAU).","link":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/authors\/omar-sabbagh\/","name":"Omar Sabbagh","slug":"omar-sabbagh","taxonomy":"authors","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/authors"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?authors=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}