Najwa Bin Shatwan is a Libyan academic and novelist. She is the author of several short story collections, plays, and three novels, including The Horses’ Hair and Orange Content. She was chosen as one of the thirty-nine best Arab authors under the age of forty by the Beirut39 project of the Hay Festival. She has also been awarded the 2019 ArabLit Short Story Prize for “The Sharp Bend at Bakur.”

Nancy Roberts is a freelance Arabic-to-English translator. Her literary translations include Salwa Bakr’s The Man from Bashmour and Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Gaza Weddings, Time of White Horses, and The Lanterns of the King of Galilee, for which she was awarded the 2018 Sheikh Hamad Prize for Translation and International Understanding.