Abdelrahman ElGendy is an author and translator from Cairo, Egypt. A winner of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press, he holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, and his work appears in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Nation, and Guernica. His poetry and prose translations from Arabic appear in Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Literary Hub, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. ElGendy’s work has received awards or fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the University of Pittsburgh, the de Groot Foundation, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Arab American National Museum.

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