Mona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections in Arabic. Her next book Masters and Lovers will be her first manuscript in English. Kareem’s work has been translated into nine languages and anthologized. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. She has been a resident/fellow at Poetry International, the Norwich Writers' Center, Banff Center, and the Forum Transregionale Studien. Her translations include the selected work of Ashraf Fayadh's Instructions Within which was longlisted for the BTBA 2017 awards.