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The 2025 title in the Chad Walsh Chapbook Series is Garden City by Sara Elkamel. Elkamel holds an MA in arts journalism from Columbia University and an MFA in poetry from New York University. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Field of No Justice (African Poetry Book Fund and Akashic Books, 2021). She lives in Cairo.
“Garden City is a lapidary, fecund investigation of the lives of women: mothers and kittens, sisters and angels—as well as female prisoners of the state, who coexist in a temporally synesthetic lockdown between pharaonic and contemporary Egypt,” writes Ken Chen. The book's dynamic figures and the poet's dreamlike descriptions of them are rife with struggle, and rich with life.
The 2025 title in the Chad Walsh Chapbook Series is Garden City by Sara Elkamel. Elkamel holds an MA in arts journalism from Columbia University and an MFA in poetry from New York University. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Field of No Justice (African Poetry Book Fund and Akashic Books, 2021). She lives in Cairo.
“Garden City is a lapidary, fecund investigation of the lives of women: mothers and kittens, sisters and angels—as well as female prisoners of the state, who coexist in a temporally synesthetic lockdown between pharaonic and contemporary Egypt,” writes Ken Chen. The book's dynamic figures and the poet's dreamlike descriptions of them are rife with struggle, and rich with life.
