Sara Elkamel is a poet, journalist and literary translator based in Cairo. She holds an MA in arts journalism from Columbia University and an MFA in poetry from New York University. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, among other publications. A Pushcart Prize winner, Elkamel was also awarded the Michigan Quarterly Review's 2022 Goldstein Poetry Prize, Tinderbox Poetry Journal’s 2022 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, Redivider’s 2021 Blurred Genre Contest, and named a 2020 Gregory Djanikian Scholar by The Adroit Journal. She is the author of the chapbook “Field of No Justice” (African Poetry Book Fund & Akashic Books, 2021).