Poet. Playwright. Essayist. Advocate.

Hi, I'm Summer! I am a Palestinian Tennessean writer, focusing primarily on poetry, playwriting, and creative nonfiction. I am a third-year graduate student at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, pursuing my Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing and Environment. My writing focuses primarily on diaspora, immigrants and refugees, race and ethnicity, identity, and social justice. 

I am currently working on a collection of nonfiction essays about my four years of work in refugee resettlement in Tennessee, for which I have received a generous LANDO grant from the de Groot foundation. I am also writing a chapbook of poems about my recent trip to Palestine. 

See my resume below for more about my publications and awards.