Sana Wazwaz performing at the Reviving Sisterhood Conference, holding a mic and standing in front of a music stand.

Sana Wazwaz is a Palestinian American writer, spoken word poet, and theater artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work has appeared in Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Ghassan Kanafani Arts Anthology, Overtly Lit, and at the Colorado College Fine Arts Center. Sana is a two-time member of New Arab American Theater Works' National Playwright Incubator Program, where her play, "Birthright Palestine," was developed and subsequently performed in their 2023 Playwright Showcase. Her creative nonfiction essay, “How to Say ‘Survival’ in Latin,” was nominated for Best American Essay 2025. She is also a finalist in Black Warrior Review’s 2025 Creative Nonfiction Essay contest. Sana holds a BA in English with a creative writing concentration from Augsburg University, and is currently the Program Assistant at New Arab American Theater Works

Sana’s work has been performed across the Twin Cities, and in Greater Minnesota, Chicago, and New York; with theaters and arts organizations including Art2Action, The Loft Literary Center, New Arab American Theater Works, Mizna, the Winona State Theater Department, Theater Du Mississippi, and more.

Through her work, Sana aims to defy the Zionist colonial narrative that Palestinians are products of nothing about occupation and perpetual war. Be it through poetry, playwriting, creative nonfiction, or any genre in between—Sana captures the rounded humanity of Palestinian life, in all its nuances, contradictions, laughter, and joy.

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