About

Majda Gama is a Beirut-born, Arab American poet based in the Washington, DC area. She is the author of “The Call of Paradise” selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of the 2022 Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize.

She has read her poetry and contributed to 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 poetry has appeared nationally, and internationally, in journals such as The Adroit Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cordite, Four Way Review, Green Mountains Review Online, Michigan Quarterly Review, Minola, The Normal School, POETRY Magazine, RHINO, Room, and Wildness. Poetry is forthcoming from Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, and We Call to the Eye & the Night, (Persea, 2023), an anthology of love poetry by Arab-Anglophone poets.

Majda is a Pushcart, Best New Poets, Best of the Net nominee, a runner up to the RHINO Founders Prize, a finalist in the Neil Shepard prize, and a finalist in the Hayden’s Ferry Review inaugural Poetry Prize. Her manuscript “In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” was a 2020 New Issues Poetry Prize finalist.

Prior to the pandemic, Majda served as a poetry editor at Tinderbox Poetry Journal before stepping down in 2020 to co-host and curate the Café Muse Literary Salon.