Dunya Mikhail,是《Baghdad Observer》的記者,面對伊拉克當局不斷增加的威脅,她逃到約旦,再移居美國。在2001年,她獲頒發聯合國人權自由寫作獎(UN Human Rights Awards),而為她翻譯詩作《The War Works Hard》的Elizabeth Winslow也於2004年榮獲Pen Translation Fund Award。該詩集在2005年入圍Griffin Prize決選,也獲New York Public Library選為年度25本令心難忘的書之一。她的另一本詩集《Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea》同樣榮獲2010年Arab American Book Award。2018年,她領取古根海姆獎學金(Guggenheim Fellowship),現居密西根州,在奧克蘭大學(Oakland University)擔任阿拉伯語講師。
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“Rare and powerful...Mikhail has created a searing portrait of courage, humanity and savagery, told in a mosaic of voices. … [her] gifts as a poet infuse these narratives with unexpected beauty.” - New York Times