Nada Faris

is a writer and literary translator from Kuwait. She is the author of Fountain of Youth (Athens, Greece: Vine Leaves Press, 2016), a semi-finalist in the 2016 Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award, and Mischief Diary (Doha, Qatar: HBKU, 2018), a young adult short story collection. She collaborated with Maha Al-Asaker on Women of Kuwait (Hillsboro, North Carolina: Daylight Books 2019), which became a finalist in the Lucie Photobook Award. And recently, Nada translated Bothayna Al-Essa’s Arabic novel Lost in Mecca, which was shortlisted for the 2024 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation and named a “Notable Translation” by World Literature Today.