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Faleeha HassanShe is a poet, teacher, editor, writer, playwrite born in Najaf, Iraq, in 1967, who now lives in theUnited States. Faleeha is the first woman to write poetry for children in Iraq. She received hermaster's degree in Arabic literature, and has now published 25 books. Her poems have beentranslated into English, Turkmen, Bosnian, Indian, French, Italian, German, Kurdish, Spain,Korean, Greek ,Serbia ,Albanian , Pakistani , Romanian , Malayalam , ODIA and Nepalilanguage. Ms. Hassan has received many awards in Iraq and throughout the Middle East for herpoetry and short stories. Faleeha Hassan has also had her poems and short stories published in avariety of American magazines such as: Philadelphia poets 22, Harbinger Asylum, Brooklyn RailApril2016, Screaming mamas, The Galway Review, Words Without Borders, TXTOBJX,Intranslation, SJ Magazine, Nondoc, Wordgathering , SCARLET LEAF REVIEW, Courier-Post, I am not a Silent Poet, Taos Journal, Inner Child Press, Atlantic City Press, SJ Magazine,Intranslation Magazine, The Guardian, Words Without Borders, Courier-Post, Life andLegends,Wordgathering, SCARLET LEAF REVIEW, Indiana Voice Journal, The Bees AreDead, IWA, Poetry Soup, Poetry Adelaide Literary Magazine, Philly, The Fountain Magazine,DRYLAND, The Blue Mountain Review, Otoliths, Taos Journal of Poetry and Art, TXTOBJX,DODGING THE RAIN, Poetry Adelaide Literary Magazine, NonDoc Philly, DRYLAND,American Poetry Review, The Fountain Magazine, Uljana Wolf, Arcs, Tiferet and Ice CreamPoetry Anthology, Dryland Los Angeles underground art &writing Magazine , Setu Magazine ,Opa Anthology of contemporary, BACOPA Literary Review , Better than Starbucks Magazine ,Tweymatikh ZQH Magazine ,TUCK Magazine , Street Light Press, Empty Mirror Magazine ,Spider Mirror Journal, Turn A Page Or Two, Within Darkness & Light, RAMINGO Magazine,Pyrokinection magazines, Anapest Journal, NewMyths , Oprah magazine, The ParagonPress ,SIXFLOD ,Our Poetry Archive Magazine , L3 Magazine , ETHOS literary journal,WHERE WORDS MATTER SPILWORDS PRESS , Universal Oneness: An Anthology ofMagnum Opus Poems from around the World , Alien Buddha Zine#4 , Mama's smile magazine ,The Love Poets anthology , The First Class literary magazine , The U.S. World War I CentennialCommission, The Word For Peace in Many Languages anthology , Bacopa Literary Review ,CONSEQUENCE magazine, PHILADELPHIA POETS 2018 Volume 24,We Got This, LiftEvery Voice poetry Anthology and Arkana a literary journal mysteries , marginalized voices ,POETRY GULCH REVIEW and EBER& WEIN PUBLISHING BEST POETS OF2019.Interantonl award (CITY OF GALATO- ANTONIO DE FERRARIIS) 2020, TIME OFTHE POET REPUBLIC 2020, POETRY GULCH REVIEW 2020, 35th Edition ,OPT MotiveLiterary Magazine , the Punch , the other side of hop , ZBORNIK POEZIJE and THE PINECONE REVIEW Magazine . Faleeha Hassan. Pulitzer Prize Nomination 2018 ,PushCaret Prize 2019 , IWAWiner of the Moonstone Chapbook Contest 2019 Winer of the Women of Excellence Inspiration award from SJ magazine 2020 , Winer of Grand Jury Award (the Sahitto International Award for Literature 2021) Cultural Ambassador - Iraq, USA