Sofia Samatar

Sofia Samatar is the author of the novel A Stranger in Olondria (Small Beer Press, 2013). Her poetry, short fiction and reviews have appeared in a number of places, including Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld Magazine, Stone Telling and Goblin Fruit. She is Nonfiction and Poetry Editor for Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts, and blogs at sofiasamatar.blogspot.com. She’s also completing a PhD in African Languages and Literature, specializing in Egyptian and Sudanese fiction. She’s a great fan of A Thousand and One Nights, with a particular fondness for the minor characters.