Sarah Aziza is a Palestinian American writer, translator, and artist with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah, Gaza. She is the author of The Hollow Half, a genre-bending work of memoir, lyricism, theory, and history exploring the intertwined legacies of diaspora, colonialism, and the American dream through and as the Palestinian body. The Hollow Half is a finalist for the Palestine Book Awards.* Aziza’s other work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best American Essays, The Baffler, Harper’s Magazine, Mizna, and The Nation, among others. She has received fellowships and residencies from Fulbright, Tin House Writers’ Workshop, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Millay Arts, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University.