“Midnight Train to Georgia”
A Poem by Nathalie Handal

Nathalie Handal

Nathalie Handal is the author of numerous poetry collections, most recently, Life in a Country Album (2019) of which Claire Messud writes, “A contemporary Orpheus, she hymns our most urgent and ineffable truths,” and  the flash collection The Republics, lauded as “one of the most inventive books by one of today’s most diverse writers” and winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American Book Award. Her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Guernica Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Nation, The Irish Times, among others. Handal is the recipient of awards from The Lannan Foundation, PEN Foundation, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, Fondazione di Venezia, among others. She is a professor at Columbia University, and writes the literary travel column “The City and the Writer” for Words without Borders magazine.