Faleeha Hassan (b. 1967, Najaf, Iraq) is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, teacher, and editor now based in the United States. The first woman to write poetry for children in Iraq, she earned her master’s degree in Arabic literature and has published 25 books. Her poems have been translated into English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Greek, Serbian, Albanian, Kurdish, Turkmen, Korean, Urdu, Hindi, Malayalam, and Odia, and she’s received many awards in Iraq and throughout the Middle East for her poetry and short stories. Translations of her writing have appeared in The Guardian, The Galway Review, Words Without Borders, The Brooklyn Rail/InTranslation, Scarlet Leaf Review, and The American Poetry Review, to name just a few. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 and won the Pushcart Prize and the Moonstone Chapbook Contest in 2019.