May Muzaffar (born 1940; Arabic: مظفر, مي) is a Jordan-based Iraqi poet, short story writer, translator, and editor.
[2][5][6] In addition, she has published five poetry collections, including Layliyyat ("Nocturnes," 1994), Barid al-Sharq ("Mail from the Orient," 2003), and Ghiyab ("Absence," 2014).
[4][5][6] Her work has been published in English translation, including in the 2000 collection The Poetry of Arab Women A Contemporary Anthology.
Her translations into Arabic include poetry from Ted Hughes and Etel Adnan, and she has served as a contributing editor to the Bahraini literary journal Thaqafat.
[8] In 1991, she left Iraq for Amman, Jordan, where she continues to reside and work, as part of a wave of Iraqi writers and artists who emigrated in this period.