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Dunya Mikhail was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and moved to the United States thirty years later in 1995. After graduating from the University of Baghdad, she worked as a journalist and translator for the Baghdad Observer. Facing censorship and interrogation, she left Iraq, first to Jordan and then to America, settling in Detroit. New Directions published her books _The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq_ , _The Iraqi Nights_ , _Diary of A Wave Outside the Sea_ , and _The War Works Hard_ -chosen as one the New York Public Library's Books to Remember in 2005-as well as her edited volume, _15 Iraqi Poets_. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Knights Foundation grant, a Kresge Fellowship, and the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing, and works as a special lecturer of Arabic at Oakland University in Michigan.