Authors

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Alaa Alqaisi

Alaa Alqaisi is a Palestinian translator, writer, and researcher from Gaza with an MA in Translation Studies. She is deeply passionate about literature, language, and the power of storytelling to bridge cultures and bear witness to lived realities. Her work has been featured on ArabLit and in ArabLit Quarterly, The Avery Review, and Adi Magazine.

Batool Abu Akleen

Batool Abu Akleen is one of the most important new poets of her generation in Gaza. Her debut collection, 48KG, drew praise worldwide. *** Batool Abu Akleen is a Palestinian poet and translator from Gaza City. At the age of fifteen, 2020, she won the Barjeel Poetry Prize for her poem ‘I didn’t steal the cloud,’ which was published in the Beirut-based magazine Rusted Radishes thereafter. Abu Akleen’s poetry has been translated into several languages and featured in numerous international publications, including ArabLit and The Massachusetts Review, amongst others. Her poem ‘Gunpowder’ was awarded third place in the 2025 London Magazine poetry prize, and her work was included in the July 2024 issue of Modern Poetry in Translation, ‘Salam to Gaza.’ Abu Akleen was Modern Poetry in Translation’s 2024 ‘Poet / Translator in Residence.’ Her poetry has appeared in editors Mohammed Al-Zaqzooq and Mahmoud Alshaer’s anthology, Letters from Gaza (Penguin, 2025) and—alongside Nahil Mohan, Sondos Sabra and Ala’a Obaid—she is one of the four Gazan authors included in Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide (Comma Press, 2025).

Jehan Bseiso

Jehan Bseiso is a poet, researcher, and aid worker. Her poetry has been published in several online & offline platforms. Her co-authored book I Remember My Name is the Palestine Book Awards winner in the creative category (2016). She is the co-editor of Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by and for Refugees (2019) and is on the production team of the Palestine Festival of Literature. Jehan has been working with Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders since 2008.