Sarah Aziza

Sarah Aziza is a Palestinian American writer, translator, and journalist. Her work has appeared in outlets including The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker website, among others. She is also a frequent contributor to The Nation.

She is the author of the memoir The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders (Catapult, 2025). In 2025, The Hollow Half won the Memoire Award at the Palestine Book Awards; in 2026, it won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for memoir and was named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction. The book also received positive reviews in Michigan Quarterly Review and Publishers Weekly. Library Journal gave the book a starred review.

Awards and honors Memoire Award, Palestine Book Awards (2025), for The Hollow Half. Winner (Memoir), Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (2026), for The Hollow Half. The Nation — “Living With Fracture: A Conversation With Sarah Aziza”. People — essay/excerpt by Aziza related to The Hollow Half.