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Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi-born poet, novelist, and translator. He studied English literature at Baghdad University before moving to the United States after the 1991 Gulf War. He did his graduate studies at Georgetown and Harvard where he earned a Ph.D in Arabic Literature in 2006. His poems and essays (in Arabic and English) have appeared in various journals and publications in the Arab world, including as-Safir, al-Akhbar, an-Nahar, al-Adab, and Masharef, as well as The Nation, Middle East Report, al-Ahram Weekly, Banipal, Ploughshares, World Literature Today, and the Journal of Palestine Studies. He has published a collection of poems, Mawshur Muballal bil-Huroob (A Prism; Wet with Wars, Cairo 2003), which was published in English as Baghdad Blues in 2007 by Harbor Mountain Press, and a novel I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody in 2007 by City Lights Books. Translations have appeared in Portuguese, German, Norwegian and Italian. His poetry was anthologized in Iraqi Poetry Today and Inclined to Speak. A new collection of poetry, Laylun Wahidun fi Kull al-Mudun (One Night in All Cities) was published in Beirut by Dar al-Jamal (2009). He has also contributed numerous translations of Arabic poetry into English and vice versa. His co-translation of Mahmud Darwish’s poetry was nominated for the PEN Prize for translation in 2004 and his translation of Darwish’s last prose book, In the Presence of Absence, is forthcoming from Archipelago in 2010. Antoon returned to his native Baghdad in 2003 as a member of InCounter Productions to co-direct/produce the documentary About Baghdad about the lives of Iraqis in a post-Saddam occupied Iraq. Antoon is currently an Assistant Professor at New York University.