The Poet and the Poem
2024-25 Series

Featured Majda Gama

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Majda Gama was born in Beirut to a Saudi father and an American mother. Raised in Jeddah and the United States, she lived/studied in Egypt and England as well. She is the author of the chapbook "The Call of Paradise" selected by Diane Seuss as winner of the 2022 Two Sylvias chapbook prize. Her full-length manuscript won the Wandering Aengus Book Award and will be published in 2025. Poems have recently appeared in The Adroit Journal, Four Way Review, The Offing, Ploughshares, POETRY, "We Call to the Eye & the Night" (Persea) an anthology of love poems by Arab Anglophone poets, and are forthcoming from Prairie Schooner and Shenandoah, where she is the 2023 Graybeal-Gowen award winner for Virginia poets. She is based in Northern Virginia where she tends to a native plant garden that was certified as a home wildlife sanctuary by the Audubon Society. Majda is currently a co-host of the long running DC literary salon Café Muse. In 2020 she stepped down from her position as poetry editor at Tinderbox Poetry Journal. She loves cardamom in her tea, saffron in her chocolate, and rosewater in everything. www.majdagama.com

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