DINA HONOUR

It started in Ms. D’Alessandro’s classroom with a sheet of lined paper and a sharpened pencil.

Once I understood what words could do, there was no looking back. I wrote throughout my childhood and teens–including some truly cringe-worthy poetry about unrequited love–but it was in those iambs of rhyme I came to understand that writing was how I made sense of the world.

Eventually, I figured out that I could study what I loved and graduated with a dual BA in Honors English/Creative Writing from Hunter College. I trolled the spoken word circuit of NYC’s Lower East Side and wrote slightly less cringe-worthy prose about heartbreaks. I met a man. I fell in love. Life happened. And life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

In 2008, after twenty years in the city of my heart, I packed up my Big Apple life and moved across the ocean, following my husband’s career. After three years in Cyprus, our family of four moved up and across the sea, landing in the fairy tale city of Copenhagen, where we lived happily ever after for ten years. Most recently, we’ve relocated once again, hanging our hats in Germany, in the shadow of the Berlin wall. Somewhere in there I started writing again.

My work is widely published online and in print, in magazines such as Hippocampus and Signature, as well as popular websites like Scary Mommy.

In 2017, my essay 1001 Nights was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

I am the author of There’s Some Place Like Home: Lessons From a Decade Abroad as well as It’s a Lot to Unpack, a memoir about the struggle to hold onto myself while moving around the world.