Dunya Mikhail (born 19 March, 1965 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi-American poet based in the United States.
Life
She was born and raised in Iraq to a Chaldean-Catholic family. She graduated with a BA from the University of Baghdad.
Mikhail worked as a journalist, as editor of the literary section, and as a translator for The Baghdad Observer. As a liberal writer during the time of dictatorship and censorship, Mikhail fled Iraq in 1995, going first to Jordan and then eventually to the United St...