Lina Mounzer is a writer and translator based in Beirut. Her work has appeared in several literary magazines and collections including Hikayat: An Anthology of Lebanese Women's Writing, published by Telegram Books. She has taught creative writing at the American University of Beirut and Lebanese American University, and she has been awarded several international literary fellowships, including the UNESCO-Aschberg writing fellowship at the Instituto Sacatar, Bahia, Brazil (2014).