Salma Amrou is the 2025 recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize at The College of William & Mary and the 2022 Youth Poet Laureate of Southeastern Virginia. An Egyptian-American poet and aspiring novelist, her work explores themes of identity, belonging, and the experiences of the Arab and Muslim diaspora. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Zhagaram Literary, The New Verse News, and The Written Resistance.