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Associate Professor

Email: hcharara@uh.edu 
Office: 205 Roy G. Cullen Building

 

 

 

Biographical Summary

Hayan Charara is an associate professor in the Honors College and the Department of English. He is the author of four poetry books, most recently These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit; a novel, Hush Little Children; and a children’s book, The Three Lucys. He edited Inclined to Speak, an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry, and with Fady Joudah is founding and series editor of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He teaches creative writing and “The Human Situation” in the Honors College, and he is the faculty advisor of UH’s undergraduate literary journal, Glass Mountain.

Education

• Ph.D. – University of Houston
  
• M.A. – New York University
  
• B.A. – Wayne State University

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Books

Fiction

• Hush Little Children (Flexible Pres, 2025)

Poetry

• These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit (Milkweed Editions, 2022)
• Something Sinister (Carnegie Mellon, 2016)
• The Sadness of Others (Carnegie Mellon, 2006)
• The Alchemist’s Diary (Hanging Loose, 2001)

Children’s Literature

• The Three Lucys (Lee & Low, 2016)

Editor

• Inclined to Speak: an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry (University of Arkansas, 2008)