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D. H. Melhem

D. H. MELHEM, Ph.D., is the author of five books of poetry, beginning with Notes on 94th Street (1972; 1979), the first poetry collection in English published by an Arab American woman. Other works: Rest in Love (1975, 1978; reissued 1995); Country (1998); Blight, a novel, 1995); a musical drama (1999), over 50 essays, 3 anthologies, including RAWI's A Different Path (coedited with Leila Diab, 2000); and two scholarly books, of which Gwendolyn Brooks (1987) was the first comprehensive study of the poet. Among numerous awards for poetry and prose: a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a 1991 American Book Award for Heroism in the New Black Poetry, and a 2001 Ph.D. Alumni Achievement Award from the City University of New York. She serves as vice-president of the International Women's Writing Guild.

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