Saeed Teebi is a Palestinian Canadian writer, whose debut short story collection Her First Palestinian was published in 2022.[1]
Born to Palestinian expatriate parents in Kuwait, Teebi emigrated with his family, first to the United States, then to Canada[2], where he has lived since 1993.[1] He resides in Toronto, Ontario, where he works as a lawyer.[1]
Her First Palestinian was shortlisted for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,[3] and was a runner-up the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award.[4]
In September 2025 Teebi published his second book, You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times.[5] It was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for English Prose in 2026.[6]
Teebi’s nonfiction has also appeared in The Globe and Mail and The New Quarterly.[2] He served as the 2024/2025 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Western Ontario.[7]
References
edit- 1 2 3 Eva Zhu, "Saeed Teebi celebrates Palestinian identity and community in new story collection". CBC Books, October 5, 2022.
- 1 2 "You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: Book by Saeed Teebi". Simon & Schuster. 2025-09-30. Retrieved 2026-02-02.
- ↑ "Two translated titles among finalists for $60,000 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize". The Globe and Mail, September 14, 2022.
- ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Kim Fu wins $10K Danuta Gleed Literary Award". Quill & Quire, May 25, 2023.
- ↑ Shazia Hafiz Ramji (October 2025). "'Storytelling tells us who we are'". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2026-02-02.
- ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Nina Dunic, Rick Westhead, Canisia Lubrin among 2026 Trillium Book Award finalists". Quill & Quire, May 5, 2026.
- ↑ Paniz Vedavarz (2024-10-22). "Lawyer by day, writer by passion, Western's writer-in-residence Saeed Teebi". Western University Gazette. Retrieved 2026-02-02.
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