Salma Amrou

Salma Amrou is an Egyptian-American writer and poet. She was awarded the 2021 Frank Keegan “Take No Prisoners” Award for News by Youth Journalism International, titled the 2022 Youth Poet Laureate of Southeastern Virginia, and awarded the 2025 Academy of American Poets Prize at The College of William & Mary. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Palette Poetry, Poets.org, Rattle, A Long House, Poetry Is Currency, and elsewhere.