Leila Chatti

Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and author of Wildness Before Something Sublime (Copper Canyon Press, 2025) and Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), winner of the Levis Reading Prize and the Luschei Prize for African Poetry and longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. Her honors include multiple Pushcart Prizes and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches in Pacific University’s MFA program and lives in Cincinnati.