noam keim (they/them) is a trauma worker, medicine maker and flâneur. They were born a settler of Occupied Palestine in an Arab Jewish family hailing from Morocco before moving to France as a baby. noam now lives on stolen Lenni-Lenape land (known as Philadelphia, USA) where they build webs of support for individuals impacted by carceral systems. Their non-fiction writing weaves themes close to their heart: reverence to the land, healing, queerness, colonialism, plants, abolition. They are a Lambda Literary ’22 Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellow, Roots.Words.Wounds ’23 Fellow, a Tin House Winter Workshop ’23 participant, a Sewanee Writers Conference ‘23 contributor and a Periplus ’23 Fellow.
PUBLISHED WORK
Freedom Trees, Massachusetts Review (Spring 2024) Thinking about na3na3, ALOCASIA (Spring 2023) My mother’s mother, Emerge Anthology (Spring 2023) Fruits of the Desert, Foglifter 8.1 (Spring 2023) Ima, Dardishi zine, volume 3 (Fall 2020) The Land is Holy vol 1-5, self-published (fall 2021- spring 2022) Trauma and Reentry chapter, Never Going Back, Mario Bueno, independently published (2020) Resource Guide for Imprisoned People With HIV, SERO Project, edited with Emily Abendroth, (April 2016)
WRITING RESIDENCIES
NAWAT Fes - Artist-in-Residence. March-May 2024 KIAR – Kathmandu International Artist Resident at Space A.September 2023 Sewanee Writers Conference - July 2023, Sewanee, TN. Non-fiction contributor (faculty: Jaquira Diaz + Aisha Sabatini-Sloan) Tin House Winter Workshop ’23 – February 15-20, 2023, virtual, Non-fiction fellow (faculty: Cyrus Dunham) Roots.Wounds.Words Writer’s Retreat for Storytellers of Color – January 8-14, 2023, virtual, Non-fiction Fellow (faculty: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo) POCOAPOCO – December 6-19, 2022, self-directed, Oaxaca, Mexico LAMBDA Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices – August 1-6, 2022, virtual, Non-Fiction Fellow (faculty: Edgar Gomez)
EDUCATION CATAPULT (virtual)–Essay Generator, year-long writing program under the guidance of best-selling author Kai-Cheng Thom started March 2022 BUILDING YOUR HOME APOTHECARY (Philadelphia, Pa, USA)– Community Herbalist Certification UNIVERSITY PARIS DIDEROT (Paris, Fr)– MA Anglophone Studies summa cum laude Concentration: Arts and visual culture in the English-speaking world Dissertations, under the supervision of Catherine Marcangeli: “We're here and we're not leaving” Visual construction and defense of the Mission district's identity (First year) Justseeds: acontemporary American printmaking collective ESAIG ESTIENNE (Paris, Fr) – BFA in APPLIED ARTS, summa cum laude Concentration: Print - Senior Thesis: Feeling music through silence, a 360°music magazine UNIVERSITY PARIS X – NANTERRE (Paris, Fr) – AA Métiers du Livre cum laude. Concentrations: Publishing, Library Science
CULTURAL PRODUCTION YALLA PUNK!, Philadelphia (USA). Advisory Board member 2022 – YallaPunk! Is an organization creating art events for SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) in Philadelphia and New York. PHILLY HERB HUB, Philadelphia (USA), collective member 2022-present SHAREHERBS, Philadelphia (USA), Cofounder. 2020-2022 (IG:shareherbs)- Shareherbs is a collective of herbalists of color distributing free medicine, facilitating workshops and organizing events. BOOKS THROUGH BARS, Philadelphia (USA) Collective Member. 2014 – 2016 GAKY'S LIGHT, Pokhara (Nepal) English And Media Arts Resident. July 2013 – May 2014Gaky’s Light was a fellowship for first generation-literate Nepali youth, that offered digital literacy, ESL, and entrepreneurship classes to help youth develop leadership skills. Facilitated workshops on zine making, journalism and art making
Member of the Radius of Arab American Writers, and AWP.