Nathalie HandalNathalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, and writer. She is the author of two poetry books, The NeverField and The Lives of Rain (short-listed for The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize/The Pitt Poetry Series and recipient of the Menada Award); two poetry CDs Traveling Rooms and Spell; the editor of The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology (Academy of American Poets Bestseller; winner of the Pen Oakland/Josephine Miles Award); and co-editor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond (Norton, 2008). Her work has been translated into more than fifteen languages and she has been featured on NPR, KPFK, PBS Radio as well as The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, Mail & Guardian, The Jordan Times and Il Piccolo.Her poetry has also been set to music and performed at venues such as Lincoln Center; and has been featured in numerous galleries/traveling exhibitions, most recently, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago. Handal has been involved either as a writer, director or producer in over twenty theatrical and/or film productions. She is currently playwright-in-residence at The New York Theatre Workshop and part of the production team for the feature film, Gibran. Nathalie Handal was chosen as one of the most powerful Arab women of 2011.