Bothayna Al-Essa is a bestselling and award-winning Kuwaiti author. She has published nine novels, as well as collections of essays, children’s books, and translations from English into Arabic. She lives in Kuwait.

All That I Want to Forget was published in Arabic with the title Kabirtu wa nasaytu an ansa.

 

Michele Henjum is a translator with an MA in comparative literature. She lives in Cairo.