Wiam El-Tamami

is an Egyptian writer, translator, and editor. She has lived in many different cultures and communities across the Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia, and North America. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Paris Review, Granta, Ploughshares, Freeman’s, AGNI, Literary Hub, ArabLit, and The Common, as well as various anthologies. She won the 2011 Harvill Secker Translation Prize, was a finalist for the 2023 Disquiet International Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2024 First Pages Prize. Her work also received a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2024 and was awarded third place in the 2026 Azhar Writing Prize. She is an editor at large at The Avery Review, and is currently based in Berlin and Cairo.