Sarah Riggs

Sarah Riggs’s eighth poetry book is Lines (Winter Editions, 2025), and she translated from the French Etel Adnan’s Time (Nightboat, 2019), a Griffin Prize winner. Together Berrada and Riggs founded Tamaas in 2005, an organization focused on translation, film and education. They live in Brooklyn, New York, on Lenape land.

Poems from The 1001 Nights, translated from the Arabic by Sarah Riggs and Omar Berrada.

Sarah Riggs is a poet and filmmaker who draws and translates. Her most recent book is EAVESDROP (Chax, 2020).

Celina Su is the author of Landia (Belladonna*, 2018) and the Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies at the City University of New York.

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