is Egyptian, by way of Abu Dhabi, and based in Chicago. She has a BA from NYU Abu Dhabi, and an MFA in Writing from School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. The recipient of the Brunel International Poetry Prize 2020, she is the author of chapbooks “Loving the Alien”, published by Black Sunflowers in 2021, and “Grief and Ecstasy”, published by the African Poetry Book Fund in 2023. Her work has been published in Poetry London, Postscript Magazine, and Another Chicago Magazine. She currently teaches poetry while writing about home, exile, the diaspora, and living between languages.
