Miled Faiza currently teaches at the University of Virginia. He received his B.A. in Arabic language and literature from Université de Sousse, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Sousse, in Tunisia in 1998. He earned his master’s degree in Near Eastern languages (Arabic) from Wayne State University in 2009. In 2004 Miled published his first collection of poetry, Remains of a House We Once Entered. Selections from this collection have appeared in numerous other publications including three anthologies. Miled currently is writing a new poetry collection, selections from which have appeared in print publications such as Al Ghaoon and in online literary journals like Kikah and Jihat al-Shi'r. English translations from the new collection also have been published in World Literature Today.