HER STORY IS
HSI publishes poetry books:
WHERE DO YOU LIVE?أين تعيش
by Hanaa Ahmad Jabr and Jennifer Jean
Cover art by Jenan Mohamed
I Drag My Sorrow By His Collar
by Hanaa Ahmad Jabr
Other Paths for Shahrazad
edited by Jennifer Jean
Cover art by Thaira Al-Mayahy
Logo by Sara Elbashir
Songs For Fairuz Series
BOOK LAUNCH:
September 16th @6pm at the Boston Public Library with live music
The Her Story collective announces an exciting partnership with Black Ocean Press: a 10-book series of poems, titled Songs for Fairuz.
Black Ocean Press presents groundbreaking English translations of contemporary women poets from Iraq and the broader Arab world whose work emerges from landscapes of conflict and renewal. By amplifying voices that challenge dominant narratives about Arab women's lives and art, this series creates vital pathways for cultural exchange and solidarity across borders. These collections not only center intimate experiences of memory, identity, and transformation, but also invite readers into vivid poetic worlds where personal and collective histories interweave, where language itself becomes a site of reclamation and reimagining. Our mission is to publish poetry that crosses linguistic boundaries and reshapes how we understand translation as an act of witness, connection, and shared imagination.
Mission Statement:
HER STORY IS, a collective led by independent women writers and artists from the United States and Iraq, promotes projects aimed at expanding linguistic, artistic, and cultural boundaries in response to global conflict and its aftermath, with a focus on centralizing the experience of women.
“A poet’s life is fated.”
— Dr. Hanaa Ahmad Jabr