Mai Al-Nakib author biography, plus links to books by Mai Al-Nakib.

Mai Al-Nakib

Mai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait and spent the first six years of her life in London, Edinburgh, and St. Louis, Missouri. She holds a PhD in English from Brown University and is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Kuwait University. Her short story collection, The Hidden Light of Objects, was published by Bloomsbury Qatar in 2014. It won the Edinburgh International Book Festival's 2014 First Book Award. Her stories and essays have been widely published, most recently in World Literature Today and the LA Review of Books.

This biography was last updated on 04/12/2022.

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