Saeed Teebi
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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[2] Teebi published his second book, You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times.[5]
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.[6]
