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Threa Almontaser is the author of The Wild Fox of Yemen, nominated for the National Book Award, the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, and the Pen/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Her debut has received widespread national recognition, including the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Maya Angelou Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize.

Early life and education

Threa Almontaser learned English in elementary school and began writing short stories and poems at a very young age, primarily in the form of scribbles that she read out loud to her family. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing and her TESOL certification from North Carolina State University.

Career

Almontaser's debut poetry collection, The Wild Fox of Yemen (Graywolf Press), was selected by Harryette Mullen as winner of the 2020 Walt Whitman Award established by the Academy of American Poets.

Almontaser has been published for the Pushcart Prize, Best of The Net, and the Best New Poets series. She is a recipient of the Unsilenced Grant for Muslim American Women Writers, and has received support from Duke, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Program. Along with writing books, Almontaser also teaches English to immigrants and refugees in her area.

References

1. "Threa Almontaser". Poets.org. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
2. ^ "NC State English Alumna Wins 2020 Walt Whitman Award". College of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2020-04-23. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
3. "The Arab Weekly". Yemeni-American poet Threa Almontaser wins Walt Whitman Award. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
4. "Threa Almontaser". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2023-08-09.

• Living people
• American women poets
• 21st-century American poets
• 21st-century American women writers
• Writers from New York City
• American people of Yemeni descent