“Wild Text Raging”: A Conversation with Threa Almontaser, by Renee H. Shea

“Wild Text Raging”: A Conversation with Threa Almontaser, by Renee H. Shea Interviews [email protected] Tue, 09/03/2024 - 14:05 Photo courtesy of the author / ThreaWrites.comThe Wild Fox of Yemen, by Threa Almontaser, received the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award for best first book in 2020, nearly a year before it was published by Graywolf Press. In the judge’s statement, the poet Harryette Mullen praised the author for “formally and linguistically diverse . . . bold, defiant . . . declarations . . . [that] ask how to belong to others without losing oneself, how to be faithful to oneself without forsaking others.” Almontaser, who is Yemeni American, grew up in New York City, and near the time she was starting college, her family settled in North Carolina. She received a BA in English and an MFA from North Carolina State University. With a TESOL certification, she continues to teach English to immigrants and refugees in the Raleigh–Durham area. She is the recipient of awards from Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy and the National Endowment for the Arts. After the Fulbright Fellowship that she received in 2021 was canceled due to Covid-19, she reapplied and received another to conduct research in Malaysia for the 2024–2025 year. Almontaser serves as editor for Tinderbox Poetry Journal and a juror for the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards. She is currently at work on a novel, what she describes as “a story... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

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