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 inaugural PEN Presents x International Booker Prize grant, the English PEN Translates Award, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and British Science Fiction Association Award. 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