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Jackie Sabbagh | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Poet |
| Awards | 2025 Best New Poets selection |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Florida (MFA) |
| Alma mater | University of Florida |
| Website | jackiesabbagh |
Jackie Sabbagh is an American writer. Her poetry and fiction has appeared in Poetry, AGNI, and Gulf Coast,[1][2][3] and has been selected for the Best New Poets and Wigleaf Top 50 anthologies.[4] She lives in New York.[5]
Biography
[edit]Sabbagh received her MFA in poetry from the University of Florida.[6] In 2024, she appeared on WNYC as a featured guest for National Poetry Month, where she read and discussed her poem "A Child Clocks Me at the Bodega" (originally appearing in The Pinch).[7][8]
Her poem "Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately," originally published in the June 2024 issue of Poetry, subsequently went viral on Tumblr.[9][10] Lauren James, writing on Arts Professional, highlighted the poem's cultural resonance during a period of intensifying attacks on transgender rights[11]. Examining the poem's "capacity to dissociate," history scholar Jamie Heather Pelling argues that Sabbagh employs "a dissociative poetics to get through fascism with her self unscathed" and "hope without attachment."[12] For Pelling, although the "fascist onslaught against trans life is 'obviously' working," the speaker remains dissociated, "eating shortbread on a patio table overlooking the enormous green ocean."[12] It was selected for Best New Poets 2025 (University of Virginia Press, 2025) by guest editor Cecily Parks.[13]
Honors and awards
[edit]- 2024: The Poetry Foundation's Frederick Bock Prize[14]
- 2025: Selection, Best New Poets 2025
References
[edit]- ↑ "Jackie Sabbagh". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2026-01-22.
- ↑ "Jackie Sabbagh". AGNI Online. Retrieved 2026-01-22.
- ↑ Sabbagh, Jackie. "LITERARY FICTION AND THE BAD GIRL". Gulf Coast Literary Journal. Retrieved 2026-01-22.
- ↑ "The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2024". wigleaf.com. Retrieved 2026-01-22.
- ↑ "Laser". Epiphany Magazine. Retrieved 2026-01-22.
- ↑ "Sabbagh; Jackie – Story". www.storymagazine.org. Retrieved 2026-01-22.
- ↑ "National Poetry Month 2024: Jackie Sabbagh". WNYC. Retrieved 2026-01-22.
- ↑ "Spring 2023 (43.1)". PINCH. Retrieved 2026-01-22.
- ↑ "Finalists". bestnewpoets.org. Retrieved 2026-01-22.
- ↑ "Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2026-01-22.
- ↑ "Repeated attacks on trans rights are exhausting". Arts Professional. Retrieved 2026-03-02.
- 1 2 Pelling, Jamie (January 20, 2025). "Capacity to Dissociate" (PDF). Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism: 12–13 – via Imbricate!.
- ↑ "Reblog by @feyburner · 1 image". Tumblr. Retrieved 2026-01-22.
- ↑ "Poetry Magazine Prizes". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2026-01-22.