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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, LitHubThe 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

References

1. "Nuar Alsadir". forwardartsfoundation.org.
2. "'Animal Joy' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2022". Time. 2022-11-14. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
3. "Best Books 2022: Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
4. "Corpsing: On Sex, Death, and Inappropriate Laughter". 16 June 2022.
5. Alsadir, Nuar (17 November 2002). "LIVES; Invisible Woman". The New York Times.
6. "Nuar Alsadir: The Craft of Writing Empathy". 6 November 2018.
7. "Nuar Alsadir: "We Are Our Choices"". The Yale Review. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
8. "Nuar Alsadir". Granta. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
9. "BOMB Magazine | Nuar Alsadir Interviewed". BOMB Magazine. 2023-04-13. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
10. "A book on laughter and how it brings out our most authentic selves". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
11. "Animal Joy by Nuar Alsadir review – is laughter the best medicine?". the Guardian. 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
12. "Review | 'Animal Joy' is a necessary reminder of laughter's cathartic nature". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-09-02.

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