Sarah Aziza is a Palestinian American writer, translator, and journalist. Her work has appeared in outlets including The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker website, among others. She is also a frequent contributor to The Nation.
She is the author of the memoir The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders (Catapult, 2025). In 2025, The Hollow Half won the Memoire Award at the Palestine Book Awards; in 2026, the book was named a finalist for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and the Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction.
The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders was published by Catapult in 2025.
According to the review aggregator Book Marks, The Hollow Half received a "Rave" rating based on reviews from BookPage, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews.
Mónica Teresa Ortiz of BookPage praised Aziza's "stunning" prose and wrote that the memoir moves effortlessly across geographies, timelines, and languages. The book also received positive reviews in Michigan Quarterly Review and Publishers Weekly. Library Journal gave the book a starred review.