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George Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket Books, 2026) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the executive editor of Mizna, and co-editor of HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket Books, 2025). They are a graduate of Northwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program, and teach at Amherst College as a Writer-in-Residence.
In what ways does nature inspire or inform your work?
As a Palestinian in diaspora, I am always looking for ways to take care of the land, wherever I am. Or, more accurately, unlearn the daily rhythms of (imperial settler colonial) life contingent upon extraction from the land, that cannot but disrespect life in all of its forms. Writing, for me, can be an experiment in these kinds of unlearning, getting us to see the ways our daily lives are intrenched in settler colonial capitalism, and then further, work to dismantle these systems, at all scales, and by whatever means we can muster.
What does it mean to you to be part of a thriving ecosystem?
There is no future worth building that isn’t collective, both understood in a communal and planetary sense.
