About

Majda Gama is a Beirut-born, Arab American poet based in the Washington, DC area. She is the author of In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls, winner of the Wandering Aengus Press award for poetry, and 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 AGNI, The Adroit Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cordite, Four Way Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod, The Offing, Ploughshares, POETRY, Prairie Schooner, RHINO, Room, TriQuarterly, Wildness, and We Call to the Eye & the Night, (Persea, 2023), an anthology of love poetry by Arab Anglophone poets.

Majda is a multiple Pushcart, Best New Poets, and 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 honors include the Graybeal-Gowen award for Virgina poets and a Gregory Djanikian scholar award from Adroit. In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls was an Inner Loop Author’s Corner selection for the month of May, and she was selected to be part of the 2025 cohort.

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