Dijaspora
Sebbaħni bil-mewġ għorokli l-ġrieħi bil-melħ ħelwa l-ħbiberija, sabiħa, isserħek żommli idi, għattili għajnejja ħa nereq fik ma tafnix, ma tafx li nħobb ngħum fil-fond biss
Miriam Calleja is the bilingual author of poetry collections Pomegranate Heart (EDE Books, 2015) and Inside Skin (a two-book series in collaboration with a lith photographer, EDE Books 2016).
She has also been published in poetry collections Persona Non Grata (Fly on the Wall Press, 2018), Leħen il-Malti (Għaqda tal-Malti, 2018) Please Hear What I’m Not Saying (editor Isabelle Kenyon, 2018), Poetic Potatoes (a collaboration between Valletta 2018 and Inizjamed together with Leeuwarden, 2018). Her work has been translated into Slovene in the collection Wara Settembru (2018, Slovene Writers Association).
She lives in Malta where she regularly facilitates creative writing workshops, literary salons, and poetry performances. Her poems have appeared in newspapers, magazines and anthologies, locally and internationally: The Sunday Times of Malta, Sentinel Quarterly, 63 channels, Degenerate Literature, The Bleed Typewriter among others. She has read at events in Malta, Berlin, UK, Italy, and New York.
Miriam believes that poetry and prose are tools for storytelling that encourage unity. She has great faith in collaboration as a key to communication.
In 2015 she was shortlisted for a literary excellence award for her poem ‘Burying the Dark’, which has been published in an anthology by Magic Oxygen in the UK.
In 2017 she was recognised by the Network of Young Women Leaders as a leading female artist in Malta.
