Adele Ne Jame

Adele Ne Jame is first generation Lebanese American and has lived in Hawai'i since 1969. She has published four books of poems and won many awards including a National Endowment for the Arts in Poetry and an Eliot Cades Award for Literature. She served as the Poet-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was recently honored to be selected as the Mikhail Series lecturer at the University of Toledo. Her poems as broadsides have been exhibited in the Sharjah, UAE Biennial and at the Arab American National Museum.