Fady Joudah is a poet and physician. He is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for his collection of poems The Earth in the Attic. In 2006, he published The Butterfly’s Burden, a collection of poems by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish translated from Arabic, which won the TLS/Banipal prize in Translation. In 2013, Joudah received the Griffin International Poetry prize for his translation of Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me and Other Poems. In 2014 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry. Alight and Textu, both from Copper Canyon Press, are his most recent poetry collections. Textu is a book-long sequence of short poems based on cellphone character count.