Siwar Masannat is a Jordanian writer. Masannat is the author of cue (Georgia Review Books/UGA Press, 2024), named an honorable mention for the Arab American Book Award, and 50 Water Dreams (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2015), winner of the CSU Poetry Center’s First Book Award. Masannat’s poetry and critical writing have appeared in print and online.

Masannat holds a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and studied at George Mason University and the University of Jordan.

Masannat works as Managing Editor of the Caribbean Poetry Book Series and Assistant Director of the African Poetry Book Fund, and teaches in Literary Arts at Brown University.