Wiam El-Tamami is an Egyptian writer, translator, and editor who has spent the last twenty years moving between different cultures and communities across the Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia, and North America. She writes creative nonfiction, fiction, and microstories that blur the boundaries of both. Her writing and translation work has been published in Granta, Ploughshares, AGNI, Freeman’s, CRAFT, The Sun Magazine, Social Movement Studies, Jadaliyya, Alif, and Banipal, as well as several anthologies. She received the 2011 Harvill Secker Translation Prize, was shortlisted for the 2023 CRAFT Nonfiction Award, and was a finalist for the 2023 Disquiet International Prize. In 2024, her work received a Pushcart Prize nomination and was shortlisted for the First Pages Prize. She has received fellowships, grants, and residencies from Art Omi, the Banff Center for the Arts, Akademie Schloss Solitude, the Mophradat Foundation, and the Berlin Senate. She is currently based in Berlin. (updated 8/2024)