I am a literary translator, editor, and writer based in Queens, New York, with roots in Khartoum and London. I work between Arabic and English.

My translations have won the English PEN Translates Award and been nominated for the English PEN x Booker Prize Grant and the Pushcart Prize. My work has appeared in publications by Dolce Stil Criollo, 128 Lit, Foundry Editions, and Willows House in South Sudan.

I am the managing editor at 52 Walker, a David Zwirner gallery. Previously I worked with Tilted Axis Press.

I also teach translation courses in the Arabic Studies Program at Hunter College (CUNY).

Get in touch: mayada.ibrahim89 [at] gmail [dot] com