About Issam

Issam Zineh is a poet, editor, and public health worker. He is author of Unceded Land (Trio House Press, 2022), a Trio House Press Editors’ Selection and finalist for the Housatonic Book Award and Balcones Prize for Poetry, among others. His work often engages with "territory" as both demarcated physical and psychological spaces and explores associated concepts: boundaries, identity, power, subjugation, resistance, and reconciliation. Much of his current work contends with the… more