Fady Joudah

Fady Joudah

Born	1971 Austin, Texas
Nationality	Palestinian-American
Education	University of Georgia, Medical College of Georgia, University of Texas
Occupation	Physician, Poet

Fady Joudah, a Palestinian-American poet and physician, is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for his collection of poems The Earth in the Attic, which will be published by Yale University Press in April 2008

Joudah was born in Austin, Texas in 1971 to Palestinian refugee parents, and grew up in Libya and Saudi Arabia. He returned to the United States to study to become a doctor, first attending the University of Georgia in Athens, and then the Medical College of Georgia, before completing his medical training at the University of Texas. Joudah currently practices as an ER physician in Houston, Texas. He has also volunteered abroad with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.

Joudah's poetry has been published in a variety of publications, including Poetry magazine, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Drunken Boat, Prairie Schooner and Crab Orchard. In 2006, he published The Butterflies Burden, a collection of recent poems by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish translated from Arabic. He was a finalist for the 2008 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for his translation of Mahmoud Darwish's The Butterfly's Burden.