Ali Al Hazmi (born 1970) is a Saudi poet and writer whose work has appeared widely in Saudi and Arab newspapers and cultural journals. Trained as a teacher, he has published several poetry collections and diwans and has received numerous Arab and international awards.
Al-Hazmi was born in the Damad Governorate of Jazan Province in southwestern Saudi Arabia. He completed his early education in Damad and later studied at the Scientific Institute affiliated with Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Arabic language from Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah in 1992.
After graduating, he worked as a teacher in Baish and Damad while publishing poetry in leading magazines and specialized cultural periodicals from the late 1980s onward. He was also actively involved in poetry readings and cultural events across the Arab world, including appearances in Sana’a, Yemen.
His major publications include five diwans: Bawwabah lil-Jasad (1993, A Gate for the Body), Khosran (2000, Loss), Al-Ghazalah Tashrab Soorataha (2004, Deer Drink Its Own Image), and Mutma’inan ‘Ala al-Haffah (2009, Comfortable on the Edge), the latter translated into Spanish in 2013 and Now in the Past (2018). His poems have been published in Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Turkish, Romanian, Serbian, Macedonian, and Chinese. Al-Hazmi has won major international poetry prizes and is represented in numerous global anthologies.