Lenna Jawdat is a poet, writer, and psychotherapist of Palestinian and Iraqi descent. Her work has been published in Poet Lore, The Massachusetts Review, The Margins, and elsewhere. She was a 2021 Best of the Net nominee, an artist in residence at Sundress Academy for the Arts (2023) and Vermont Studio Center (2025) and a Tin House alum. Lenna received her MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts in May 2024. Her debut book, 70,000, was selected for Summer/Fall 2026 Indies Introduce and July 2026 Indies Next by the American Booksellers Association. She lives in DC on the ancestral land of the Anacostan people.
Lenna Jawdat
