Hedy Habra has authored three poetry collections, most recently The Taste of the Earth (Press 53, 2019), winner of the 2020 Nautilus Silver Award, with an Honorable Mention in the 2020 Eric Hoffer Book Awards, and finalist for the USA Best Book Award. Tea in Heliopolis won the USA Best Book Award and Under Brushstrokes, was finalist for the USA Best Book Award and the International Book Award. Her story collection, Flying Carpets, won the Arab American Book Award’s Honorable Mention and was finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. A fourteen-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, her work appears in numerous publications. Her website is hedyhabra.com