Zein El-Amine is a Lebanese-born poet and writer. He

has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Maryland. His

poems have appeared in Wild River Review, Folio, Beltway

Quarterly, Foreign Policy In Focus, CityLit, Graylit, Split This

Rock, Penumbra, DC Poets Against The War: An Anthology,

Ghostfishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. His latest

poetry manuscript A Travel Guide for the Exiled was recently

shortlisted for the Bergman Prize, judged by Louise Glück. His

short stories have appeared in the Uno Mas, Jadaliyya, Middle

East Report, Wild River Review, About Place Journal, and in

Bound Off.