He is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for his collection of poems The Earth in the Attic.

[1] Joudah was born in Austin, Texas in 1971 to Palestinian refugee parents, and grew up in Libya and Saudi Arabia.

His 2021 poetry collection, Tethered to the Stars, was cited by Cleveland Review of Books as a poetry collection that "does not teach us how to answer any question it poses with a stylized rhetoric, a self-important flourish; the poems model a lyrical thinking which prompts the question itself.

"[6] Joudah won the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize, given to an American writer of “exceptional talent.

[9] In October 2014, Joudah was interviewed for the documentary Poetry of Witness, directed by independent filmmakers Billy Tooma and Anthony Cirilo.