PAPER AND STICK

Tram Editions | 2021
“Wathington engineers
an aesthetic disquiet,
creating a complicit
intimacy for the reader..."

 ~Deema K. Shehabi, author
of Thirteen Departures from
​the Moon

BIO: 

Priscilla Wathington is a Palestinian American poet/editor and the author of the chapbook, Paper and Stick (Tram Editions), which draws from her past human rights advocacy work. Her poems have appeared in Four Way Review, Prairie Schooner,  Adi Magazine, Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, Salamander & elsewhere. She was a Sam Mazza Writer in Residence at San Francisco State University’s Poetry Center and an Artist-in-Residence at the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts in 2024, and a Tin House Scholar in 2025. Wathington holds an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College.  
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