Nuar Alsadir

Nuar Alsadir (born New Haven, Connecticut) is an American poet and psychoanalyst. She was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize for Poetry.^[1] Animal Joy, her nonfiction debut, was a TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2022^[2] and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022.^[3]

Her work has appeared in 'The Paris Review,^[4] The New York Times Magazine,^[5] LitHub^[6]The Yale Review.,^[7] and Granta.^[8] She was interviewed by Cathy Park Hong in BOMB Magazine.^[9]

She has also appeared as part of the peer advisory group on Couples Therapy (2019 TV series).

Works

• More Shadow Than Bird (Salt Publishing, 2012).
• Fourth Person Singular (Liverpool University Press, 2017)
• Animal Joy, (Graywolf Press/ FItzcarraldo Editions, 2022) ISBN 978-1-64445-093-2 ^[10][11][12]