Majda Gama
Majda Gama is the author of the chapbook The Call of Paradise selected by Diane Seuss as winner of the 2022 Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize. Her full-length manuscript won the Wandering Aengus Book Award and will be published in 2025. She is a 2024 Gregory Djanikian Scholar and her poems appear in the Adroit Journal, Four Way Review, The Offing, Ploughshares, Poetry, Under A Warm Green Linden, and are forthcoming from Prairie Schooner, Tahoma, and Terrain.org.
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In Great Aunt Noor’s Salon
Thirty-two years ago, my sister learned to walk. She simply stood up on her wavering one-year-old legs, arms slightly raised in a wing shape for balance. The sky over our heads in the apartment block— by an empty sandlot that often filled with shabab playing futbol—now filled with the cries of aircraft flying from […]
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It’s Not Like I Can Adopt a Country: Siew Interviews Majda Gama
David Siew Hii, Shenandoah’s associate poetry editor, interviews poets! To showcase their voices, the questions in the interview were removed, leaving behind only the voice of the writer. In this interview, Majda Gama talks about being an accidental Virginian, what makes a lifestyle, cats from the Middle East, and how poetry and prose party differently. Read her poem Graybeal-Gowen Prize-winning poem, “In Great Aunt Noor’s Salon,” here.