M. Lynx Qualey

Marcia Lynx Qualey is a writer, publisher, editor, translator, and speaker. She has published essays and short fiction in a number of magazines, including Ploughshares, AGNI, and The Ex-Puritan. She founded ArabLit, which won a “Literary Translation Initiative” award at the 2017 London Book Fair and an Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature in 2024. She reviews for various magazines and newspapers and has translated a handful of novels, including the Palestine Book Award-winning Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, by Sonia Nimr, and Haya Saleh’s Wild Poppies, which was shortlisted for the 2024 GLLI Award. She was also shortlisted for the Banipal translation prize in 2023 for the first two novels in Sonia’s Thunderbird trilogy and is very excited for you to read Maria Daadouche's forthcoming sci fi novel Golden Eyes. She is also a co-founder of the “WorldKidLit” initiative and co-hosts the BULAQ podcast, which explores literature of the Maghreb and Mashreq.
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Represented by: Mira Landry

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