Hedy Habra

• 2019 USA Best Books Awards Finalist.

• Finalist, 2016 International Books Awards, Poetry Category[2]
• Finalist, 2016 USA Best Book Award, Poetry Category[3]
• Nomination, 2016 Pushcart Prize, "How Much of Yourself Remains Within the Walls of a Home", "A Bird's Song, Unraveled", "Visiting my Mother in Montreal"[4]

• Winner, 2014 USA Best Book Award, Poetry Category
• Finalist, 2014 International Poetry Book Award[4]

• Winner, Honorable Mention, 2013 Arab American Book Award in Fiction[5]
• Finalist, 2014 Eric Hoffer Book Award in Short Fiction
• Finalist for the 2014 USA Best Book Award in Short Fiction[4]

• Excellence in Teaching Award Western Michigan University (2015–2016)
• Excellence in Teaching Award Western Michigan University (2014)
• Alumni Achievements Award Western Michigan University (2013)[4]

• Tiferet Journal Poetry Contest Honorable Mention (2014): "I'd Like to Sing a Song of Freedom"
• Pirene's Fountain Poetry Awards (2014): Monostich Poetry Contest Winner "Canvas", Four Lines Poetry Contest Winner "Resonance"
• Nazim Hikmet Fourth Annual International Poetry Competition Winner (2012):"I Always Knew I was a Sybil at Heart," "Weaving and Unweaving", "Writing in Dust"
• New Millennium Award Semi-finalists (2011–2012):"Shipwrecked," "Obsessive Compulsion"
• Letras Femeninas Premio Victoria Urbano Winner (2007):"Mascarade," "Bricolage," "Simulacra," "Unborn," "Evening Walk"
• Explicación de Textos Literarios Premio Spanish Press Winner (2005):"Bajo pinceladas," "El sol también tiene su lado oscuro," "Contrapunto"
• Nimrod/Hardman Award, Pablo Neruda Prize Finalists (2003):"Tea at Chez Paul's," "Untold Tale(s) of Unfinished Tapestry," "Narguileh,""I had Never Seen a Dead Man Before," "Open-Air Cinema in Heliopolis,""A Triptych, Unraveled"
• Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize Finalist (1999): "Raoucheh"
• Linden Lane Magazine's English Poetry Prize Winner (1994):"Encounters," "Vanishing Shadow," "I Haven't Written a Poem in a Long Time"
• Negative Capability's Eve of St. Agnes Award Finalist (1994): "A Glimpse of Fall"
• Negative Capability's Eve of St. Agnes Award Finalist (1993): "To Henriette"
• Negative Capability's Eve of St. Agnes Award Finalist (1992): "That Day in Heliopolis"
• Robert Whiting Awards Finalists (1990): "Transience," "Raindrops" "The Communion"
• Negative Capability's Eve of St. Agnes Award Finalists (1989): "Tea at Heliopolis," "The White Brass Bed," "Camera Lucida"
• Linden Lane Magazine's English Poetry Prize, Third place (1989): "Waiting for Marie"
• Linden Lane Magazine's English Poetry Prize Finalist (1987): "Immured," "Dive."
• Journal Français d'Amérique Concours de Poèmes de Noël, Second place (1986): "Al Milad"[4]

• Letras Femeninas Premio Victoria Urbano Winner (2007): "Noor el Kamar"
• New Voices Contest Honorable Mention (1993): "Mariam"
• New Voices Contest Honorable Mention (1992): "Anemones Fingers"[4]

• All-University Research & Creative Scholar Fellowship Award Western Michigan University (2006).
• Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award Western Michigan University (2006).
• Graduate Research Scholar & Creative Writing Award WMU Spanish Department (2006).
• Graduate Research Scholar & Creative Writing Award WMU Languages & Linguistics Department (1993).[4]

• "Ecos y resonancias de Borges en Barthes." Hispanic Journal (Forthcoming 2020).
• "Modalidades de la imaginación erótica: De Conversación en La Catedral a Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto" Editor Roy Boland, Australia (2016)
• "Recreación y reflexividad en dos diaristas vargasllosisanos: Don Rigoberto y Gauguin." "La ciudad y los perros y el Boom hispanoamericano." Actas del Congreso Homenaje a Vargas Llosa. Selected Proceedings: Casa de la Literatura Peruana. Lima, Perú (2016).
• "Evolución de la mirada masculina en Travesuras de la niña mala de Mario Vargas Llosa: del arte visual a la literatura" 32, vol 60–61 Alba de América (2012).
• "Los submundos pictóricos de un diarista: Gauguin en El Paraíso en la otra esquina," Latin American Literary Review (2011).
• "Flora Tristán: de aventurera a visionaria en El Paraíso en la otra esquina," Alba de América (2010).
• "Rubén Darío, 'monje artífice' de 'El reino interior,'" Explicación de Textos Literarios 33.2 (2005).
• "Fragmentación proteica y especular en la Reivindicación del Conde don Julián de Juan Goytisolo." INTI 61–62 (2005).
• "Escisión y liberación en 'La casa de azúcar' de Silvina Ocampo." Hispanófila 145 (2005).
• "Angel Rama: legados y aportes a la crítica literaria hispanoamericana." Hispanic Journal 25 (2005).
• "Re-escritura y subversión de la iconografía dariana de "El Reino Interior" en "Tú me quieres blanca" de Alfonsina Storni." Alba de América 24 (2005).
• "Transferencia de la imagen paterna en Arráncame la vida: del juego infantil al juego erótico y agónico." La Mujer en la Literatura del Mundo Hispano. Colección La Mujer… ICLH 6 (2005).
• "Modalidades especulares de desdoblamiento en Aura de Carlos Fuentes." Confluencia 21 (2005).
• "Deconstrucción del tejido mítico franquista" Espéculo: Revista de estudios literarios (UCM) 28 (2004).
• "Recuperación de la imagen materna a la luz de elementos fantásticos en Pedro Páramo." Chasqui 33 (2004).
• "El palmar de la Chusmita: pre-texto y resistencia a la escritura en Doña Bárbara." Hispanic Journal 24 (2004).
• "Lituma's Fragmented Image in Mario Vargas Llosa's Fiction" Latin American Literary Review 30 (2004).
• "El arte como espejo: función y trascendencia de la creación artística en Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto." Confluencia 18 (2003).
• "El detective entre el inconsciente personal y el inconsciente colectivo en Lituma en los Andes." Alba de América 20 (2002).
• "Postmodernidad y reflexividad artística en Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto." Chasqui 30 (2001).
• "Acercamiento lúdico a lo fantástico en la narrativa breve de Arenas, Cortázar y García Márquez." Hispanic Journal 21 (2001).
• "El espíritu del juego en El Buscón." Explicación de Textos Literarios 27 (1998–1999).
• "El negrero como personaje romántico en Pedro Blanco, el negrero de Lino Novás Calvo." Afro-Hispanic Review 18 (1999).
• "Multiplicidad de juegos en El apuntador de Carlos Maggi." Hispanófila 125 (1999).
• "Revelación anamórfica en Elogio de la madrastra." LA CHISPA '97 Selected Proceedings (1997).
• "Reminiscencias órficas en ¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?" Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 31 (1997).
• "La Sonata de otoño de Valle-Inclán: espejo narcisista de un don Juan decadente." Crítica Hispánica 18 (1996).
• "Caupolicán o la creación de un mito: La Araucana de Alonso de Ercilla." MIFLIC Review: Selected Proceedings 5 (1995).
• "Erotismo in Raining Backwards" de Roberto Fernández. Linden Lane Magazine 11 (1992).
• "Chiaroscuro in Joyce's ‘Araby’" Cermeil 11 (1986).[6]

• The Taste of the Earth, (Press 53 2019)
• Tea in Heliopolis, (Press 53, Winston-Salem, NC, 2013. ISBN 9781935708766)[7]
• Under Brushstrokes, (Press 53, Winston-Salem, NC, 2015. ISBN 9781941209233)[8][9]

• Ars Moriendi Writings on the Art of Dying, Desmond Kong zhicheng-mingdé, Ed. "Obsessive compulsion," "The Memory of Unspoken Words," "Face à face," "The Ages of Man," "After the Storm," "To My Grandmother, Heliopolis, Egypt 1965," "Everything They Said" (2015) ISBN 9789810958084[10]
• BARED: Les Femmes Folles Anthology on Bras and Breasts, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Ed. "First Bra" (forthcoming 2016)
• Come Together: Imagine Peace, Harmony Series, Bottom Dog Press. Philip Metres, Ann Smith and Larry Smith Eds. Blue Heron" (2008). ISBN 9781933964225[11]
• Conservation International Poetry Project: Melancholy and Memory
• Söylesí Üç Aylik Suur Dergisi trans. into Turkish (2010).
• FIRST WATER, The Best of Pirene's Fountain Anthology "Liberation Square," "Broken Ladder" (2013).
• FULCRUM: An Anthology of Poetry and Aesthetics: "Silence" (2015)
• Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry Hayan Charara, Ed. "Even the Sun has its Dark Side," "Milkweed," "Tea at Chez Paul's" (2008). ISBN 9781557288677*Mediterranean.nu (3 contributions) http://www.odyssey.pm/?p=1786
• Nazim Hikmet Fourth Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival Poetry: A Chapbook of Talks and Poetry Award-Winning Poems "I Always Knew I was a Sybil at Heart," "Weaving and Unweaving" "Writing in Dust" (2012).
• The Original Van Gogh's Ear Anthology "ATryptich: Visibile parlare in sotto voce" (2012).
• Poetic Voices Without Borders Vol 2 Gival Press, Robert Giron, Ed,:

"El sol también tiene su lado oscuro," "Contrapunto," "Adagio por una viola d’amore olvidada," "Mapas," "Aquarelle," "Chute Libre," "Le café Turc," "Délire," "Filles du feu," "Niagara,"La vieille femme" (2009).

• RAWI.org Featured Writer for the month May 2010
• "Raoucheh," "Narguileh," "Open-Air Cinema in Heliopolis," "Salawat,"
• "Tea at Chez Paul's," "Lost and Found."
• Shake the Tree Anthology Vol 2, Kelle Grace Gaddis, Ed. (2016) Ten poems by Hedy Habra.
• SilverBirch Press: Where I live Poetry Series Anthology "Blue Heron" (2015).
• SilverBirch Press: I am Waiting Poetry Series Anthology "Waiting in a Field of Melted Honey" (2014).
• Sunrise from Blue Thunder Japan Anthology "Aftershocks in Fukushima," Hokusai's The Great Wave" (2011).
• Women's Voices for Change Rebecca Foust, Ed. "Tea at Chez Paul's" (2015).[12]

• "Flying Carpets", (Interlink Books, Northampton, MA, 2013. ISBN 9781566569576)[9][13]

• "Mundos alternos y artísticos en Vargas Llosa", (Iberoamericana, Madrid, 2012. ISBN 9788484896890)[9][14]