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 Hollow Half The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders was published by Catapult Books in 2025.
Reception Mónica Teresa Ortiz of BookPage praised Aziza's "stunning" prose and wrote that the memoir moves effortlessly across geographies, timelines, and languages. 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. Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction (2026), for The Hollow Half. Winner (Memoir), Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (2026), for The Hollow Half. United States Artists Fellow (Writing, 2026).
Further reading Democracy Now! (April 29, 2025) — interview with Aziza about The Hollow Half. The Nation — “Living With Fracture: A Conversation With Sarah Aziza”. People — essay/excerpt by Aziza related to The Hollow Half.
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