Hajer Mirwali is a Palestinian and Iraqi writer living in Toronto. Mirwali earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Her writing has been published in a number of literary magazines.
Poetry
Revolutions
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2025.
PS8626.I793 R48 2025
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Revolutions sifts through the grains of Muslim daughterhood to reveal two metaphorical circles inextricably overlapping: shame and pleasure. In an extended conversation with Mona Hatoum’s artwork + and –, Revolutions asks how young Arab women – who live in homes and communities where actions are surveilled and categorized as 3aib or not 3aib, shameful or acceptable – make and unmake their identities. Working between a Palestinian and Iraqi poetics drawing from artists like Mahmoud Darwish and Naseer Shamma and a feminist Canadian poetics inspired by Erín Moure, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Nicole Brossard, Revolutions spirals and collapses as we turn and re-turn around its circles.
Awards and Honours
2026 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (League of Canadian Poets) (Winner)
2026 Trillium Book Award–Poetry (English)(Winner)