Sarah Aziza is a Palestinian American writer and translator with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah, Gaza. She is the author of The Hollow Half, winner of the Palestine Book Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, Arab American Book Award Honorable Mention, and a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best American Essays, The Baffler, Harper’s Magazine, and The Nation, among others. She has received support from Fulbright, MacDowell, United States Artists, and the Pulitzer Center, among others. She lives on unceded Canarsie and Munsee Lenape land.