‘A Syrian Love Story’ has an opportunity to do delicate, powerful work; instead, like its subjects, it gets trapped within the limits of its own choices.
Jennifer MacKenzie
Jennifer MacKenzie is an American poet and writer whose first book, My Not-My Soldier, won Fence Books' Modern Poets Prize. Her prose on Syria, Turkey and Palestine has appeared in the Huffington Post, Guernica, Religion and Politics, Killing the Buddha, and the Kenyon Review online. She teaches writing, literature and communications at CUNY's Lehman College in the Bronx.