Majda Gama (author of The Call of Paradise, Two Sylvias Press, 2023)
​Winner of the 2022 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, judged by Diane Seuss
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Majda Gama was born in Beirut, Lebanon to a Saudi father and an American mother. She grew up in both her parents’ countries, and languages, as well as in Egypt and England. For the past twenty-two years she has divided her time between Dubai and the Washington, DC suburbs where she has roots in the underground music scene. She has performed her poetry on panels at the PEN/World Voices festival in New York City, the Lit Crawl in San Francisco, and Split This Rock in Washington, DC. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart, Best New Poets and Best of the Net, she was an honorable mention in the 2020 RHINO Founders Prize, and a finalist in the Hayden’s Ferry Review inaugural poetry prize. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming nationally, and internationally, in journals such as The Adroit Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cordite, The Fairy Tale Review, Four Way Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, POETRY Magazine, RHINO, Room, and Wildness. During the pandemic she stepped away from editing Tinderbox Poetry Journal and into co-hosting the Café Muse literary salon founded by The Word Works. She is based in Northern Virginia where she plays Dungeons & Dragons and tends to a native plant garden that has been certified as a home wildlife sanctuary by the Audubon society. The Call of Paradise is her first book.   



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