samia saliba
Samia Saliba is a writer and artist from Washington State. She is currently a PhD candidate in American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where she researches at the intersection of Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) studies and carceral studies. Her scholarly work explores gender violence, policing, counterterrorism, and imperialism in SWANA and its diasporas.
She is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers and a Tin House Winter Workshop alum. Her poetry has been published in Split This Rock, Mizna, Apogee, and elsewhere and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, and Best of the Net. She is the author of the chapbook conspiracy theories (Game Over Books, 2025) which features poems inspired by The X-Files. Her favorite X-Files episode is “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose.”
She reads and reviews Southwest Asian & North African literature for Mizna and the Radius of Arab American Writers.
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