Abdelrahman ElGendy

is a writer and translator from Cairo, and the Literary Editor of The Markaz Review. He is the author of Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming; longlisted for the National Book Award. A winner of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press, ElGendy holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh and an MSc in Human Rights and Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His work appears in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Nation, The Baffler, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. His poetry and prose translations from Arabic appear in publications including Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Literary Hub, Words Without Borders. You can find him at www.abdelrahmanelgendy.com and on Instagram at @abdelrahman_elgendy95.