Suheir Hammad has been played on NTS shows including Soup To Nuts w/ Shy One, with Eye Will Not (Bugzintheattic Molecular Dub) first played on 15 April 2023.

Suheir Hammad was born in Amman, Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents on October 25, 1973. Suheir’s family immigrated to Brooklyn NY when Suheir was five years old, and she was raised there until the age of sixteen. Her parents moved to Staten Island while Suheir was in high school.

Suheir has been able to travel throughout the world via her poetry. She has read her poems in Ivy League Universities and on Brooklyn’s street corners. Her work has appeared in award winning anthologies, and in zines stapled together by queer youth collectives. As far as we know, Suheir was the first Palestinian starring in a Broadway show, and she continues to be the first Palestinian in many artistic spaces throughout the States.

Awards:

The Audre Lorde Writing Award, Hunter College 1995, 2000

The Morris Center for Healing Poetry Award 1996

New York Mills Artist Residency 1998

Van Lier Fellowship 1999

The 2001 Emerging Artist Award, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Institute at NYU

TONY Award – Special Theatrical Event – original cast member and writer for Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway – 2003

*Suheir is also a talent associate for the Peabody Award winning HBO show Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry 2003

Source: www.suheirhammad.com