Amjad Nasser

is a Jordanian poet, born in 1955. From 1976 he worked in newspapers in Beirut and Cyprus. Since 1987 he has lived in London where he is managing editor and cultural editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily newspaper.

He has published many volumes of poetry and one travel book. An anthology of his poetry has been published in Cairo, and he has two volumes of selected poems in French and Italian respectively.

Forthcoming from Banipal Books in July 2009 is Shepherd of Solitude, Selected Poems, a volume of selected poems by Amjad Nasser, translated and introduced by Khaled Mattawa, Amjad Nasser's first English collection.