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Safa Khatib

Safa Khatib is a poet and graduate student in the Track for International Writers at Washington University in St Louis.

She is the author of A Dress of Locusts (Bloomsbury, 2025) and is currently working on a history of twentieth century American poetries provisionally titled Settler Dispositions: Occidentalism and the Persistence of the Lyric.

Articles by Safa Khatib

This Eternal Present: Mona Kareem and Safa Khatib in Conversation
In this wide-ranging interview – on the humour of maps, immigration officers, pilfering through a father's library, and more – Safa Khatib speaks to poet and translator Mona Kareem about their collection I Will Not Unfold These Maps and the evolution of their poetics and practice amid Arabic and American publishing industries. This piece is published in tandem with Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue, where Mona is a contributor.
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