Sara Abou Rashed

Sara Abou Rashed is a Palestinian-American poet and public speaker coming to Ann Arbor from Columbus, Ohio. She has delivered a TEDx talk and keynoted at numerous universities and conferences across the US. Her poems appear in over ten publications, including a high school language arts curriculum by McGraw-Hill. A Pushcart nominee, Sara has delivered a TEDx Talk and was named a national Beinecke Scholar. In 2018, Sara wrote and widely performed her autobiographical one-woman show titled, A Map of Myself: My Odyssey to America, about her family's most recent displacement from Syria. Be it a poem, an essay or theatrical storytelling, Sara’s works are rooted in conversations about history, exile, war, immigration, intimacy, personal and collective memory and identity.