Hayan Charara
Professor
Email: hcharara@uh.edu
Office: 205 Roy G. Cullen Building
Biographical Summary
Hayan Charara is a 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鈥檚 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 鈥淭he Human Situation鈥� in the Honors College, and he is the faculty advisor of UH鈥檚 undergraduate literary journal, Glass Mountain.
Education
- Ph.D. 鈥� 91视频
- M.A. 鈥� New York University
- B.A. 鈥� Wayne State University
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鈥檚 Diary (Hanging Loose, 2001)
Children鈥檚 Literature
- The Three Lucys (Lee & Low, 2016)
Editor
- Inclined to Speak: an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry (University of Arkansas, 2008)