Tarik Dobbs

Tarik Dobbs
Dobbs (left) at the 2025 AWP Conference
Born1997 (age 28–29)
OccupationPoet, editor
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota (MFA)
Northwestern University (MFA)
GenrePoetry
Notable worksNazar Boy (2024)
Notable awardsGLCA New Writers Award for Poetry (2026)
Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship (2022)

Tarik Dobbs (طارق دبس) is an Arab American poet and editor. Dobbs is the author of the poetry collection Nazar Boy (Haymarket Books, 2024), which won the GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry in 2026. Dobbs was named a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow in 2022.