A Dress of Locusts

An electrifying debut collection exploring language and revolution, by an extraordinary new poetic talent

Safa Khatib is a poet, translator, teacher and daughter of South Indian immigrants. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Words Without Borders, the Baffler, the Kenyon Review and the White Review. She is the recipient of support from the US Fulbright Program and the Stadler Center for Poetry, among other institutions. She is currently a PhD student in the Track for International Writers in the department of Comparative Literature at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri.