Adania Shibli was born in 1974 in Palestine. Her novels, plays, short stories and narrative essays have been published in various anthologies, art books, and literary and cultural magazines in a number of different languages. She has twice been awarded with the Qattan Young Writer’s Award-Palestine in 2001 for her novel Masaas (translated into English as Touch. Northampton: Clockroot, 2009), and in 2003 for her novel Kulluna Ba’id bethat al Miqdar aan el-Hub (translated into English as We Are All Equally Far from Love. Northampton: Clockroot, 2012). Her latest novel is Tafsil Thanawi (Beirut: Al-Adab, 2017, translated into English as Minor Detail, London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, NY: New Directions, 2020). Amongst her non-fiction books are, the art book Dispositions (Ramallah: Qattan, 2012), and an edited collection of essays entitled A Journey of Ideas Across: In Dialog with Edward Said, (Berlin: HKW, 2014). Alongside her writing, Shibli is engaged in academic research, and since 2013 she has been teaching part-time at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Birzeit University, Palestine.