Our 2024 Kelly Writers House/University of Pennsylvania Fellow, Ahmad is a poet from Palestine and an artist-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Border Wisdom (Winter Editions, 2023) and Bitter English (University of Chicago Press, 2019). He won the 2018 Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for creative writing and the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. His poems have been published in Jacket2, Apiary, Supplement, SAND, Michigan Quarterly Review, Cordite, American Poetry Review, and Poetry, among other publications.