Nathalie Khankan is the author of quiet orient riot, 2020, winner of Omnidawn's 2019 1st/2nd Book Prize, selected by judge Dawn Lundy Martin. Her poems appear in the Berkeley Poetry Review, jubilat, and Crab Creek Review. Straddling Danish, Finnish, Syrian and Palestinian homes and heirlooms, Nathalie currently lives in San Francisco. She teaches Arabic language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley.