Sam Zamrik

1996 in Damascus, Syria, is a trans-queer author, translator, and political educator. Zamrik is co-founder of the Syrian underground music scene “New Wave of Syrian Metal.” She studied English Language and Literature at Damascus University. With a scholarship to Bard College Berlin, she received her BA in Politics and Literature. Several of Zamrik’s texts were published by the WIR MACHEN DAS initiative “Weiter Schreiben” and in various German newspapers such as taz and Tagesspiegel. Zamrik curated several workshops on language, politics, and literature as part of the Archive of Refuge at the House of World Cultures and the Translationale Berlin, among others. In Fall 2022, Zamrik’s English-German poetry collection “ICH BIN NICHT” was published by Hanser Berlin Verlag. Her debut was selected for the 2023 Poetry Recommendations List of the German Academy for Language and Poetry and was praised by critics as a powerful poetic engagement with the experience of exile. Zamrik was awarded the inaugural Wunderblock Award by the Wunderblock Foundation and was Junior Fellow at the Mercator Foundation. Sam Zamrik lives and works in Berlin.