Hisham Bustani

Hisham Bustani is an award-winning Jordanian author of five collections of short fiction and poetry. His work has been translated into several languages and appeared in many journals, such as the Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, The Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, and the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly. His fiction has been collected in The Best Asian Short Stories, The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human: Tales from Many Muslim Worlds, and The Radiance of the Short Story: Fiction from Around the Globe, among other anthologies. Bustani has received the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Fellowship for Artists and Writers and is the Arabic fiction editor of the Amherst College–based literary review The Common.