Youmna Chlala

Youmna Chlala is an artist and a writer born in Beirut and currently based in New York. Her book of poetry, The Paper Camera, is forthcoming from Litmus Press. She is the founding editor of Eleven Eleven {1111} Journal of Literature and Art. Her writing appears in publications such as Guernica, Prairie Schooner and the MIT Journal for Middle Eastern Studies. She has exhibited widely, including in the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and The Drawing Center, and participated in the Performa Biennial 11, Jerusalem Show IV, and the 1st Brooklyn Biennial. She is the co-founder of the Mutating Cities Institute and Associate Professor in the Humanities & Media Studies Department at the Pratt Institute.