About the Author

A. D. Lauren-Abunassar, an Arab American poet and writer, currently lives in New York. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Narrative, Rattle, Boulevard, and elsewhere. She was the winner of the 2020 Palette Emerging Poet Prize and a finalist for a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. She holds graduate degrees in journalism from NYU and poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Reviews

“A. D. Lauren-Abunassar’s Coriolis is the kind of poetry debut that takes an entire lifetime to build, as autobiography meets iteration and disintegration, as cryptids meet the questions of forgiveness and sacrifice, as blood meets ocean . . . This is one of the most memorable, immaculate, and singular poetry debuts I’ve ever read.” —George Abraham, author of Birthright “It is a strange but marvelous thing that every truly gifted lyric poet invents a language of her own. Everything is magical here, and everything is real. Lauren-Abunassar knows how to speak in tongues, to say what isn’t quite possible to say otherwise.”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa “In poems that crest and turn with fresh metaphors and a deeply observant and curious point of view, Lauren-Abunassar takes the reader on a journey that, as it unfolds, reminds us that ‘even / in the dark, we grow.’”—Ashley M. Jones, author of Reparations Now! Poems