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. Animal Joy, her nonfiction debut, was a TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2022 and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022.

Her work has appeared in 'The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, LitHub The Yale Review''. , and Granta.  She was interviewed by Cathy Park Hong in BOMB'' Magazine.

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