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Amira Hanafi is an artist, writer and cultural worker. She co-founded a network of youth-run media outlets in marginalized communities of Egypt, and manages an online resource for Egyptian artists. From 2011 to 2013, she held the role of Programme Director and Curator of artewella art space, leading the organization from an independent artists’ project to a community art space providing workshops, residencies, exhibitions and opportunities for collaboration. She is the author of Forgery, Minced English, and is currently working on A Dictionary of the Revolution, a documentation of the Egyptian revolution in the popular colloquial.
Ladan Osman lives in Chicago and is the winner of the African Poetry Book Fund’s 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her manuscript The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem Foundation, and the Michener Center for Writers. A 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Life in Poetry, Broadsided, Narrative Magazine, Prairie Schooner, and Vinyl Poetry.