Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi-born poet, novelist, scholar, and translator. He has published two collections of poetry and four novels. His works have been translated to fourteen languages. His scholarly works include numerous essays on modern Arabic poetry and The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf (Palgrave, 2014). His essays have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times and many pan-Arab newspapers and journals. He was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin in 2017 and a Rockefeller fellow at Bellagio in 2018. He is co-founder and editor of Jadaliyya. He is an associate professor at New York University.