Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet, novelist, translator, and scholar. He has published two collections of poetry and five novels in Arabic. His self-translation of his second novel, The Corpse Washer, won the 2013 Arab American Book Prize, and his translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence won the 2012 American Literary Translators Association Award. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya and associate professor of Arabic literature at New York University.