Lisa Suhair Majaj (born 1960) is a Palestinian-American poet and scholar.
[1] Born in Hawarden, Iowa, Majaj was raised in Jordan.
in English literature from American University of Beirut and an M.A.
In 2008, she was awarded the Del Sol Press Annual Poetry Prize for her poetry manuscript Geographies of Light.
[3][4] "In difficult times, poets and writers have always provided lifelines."