Interviews and profiles
Featured Authors
A full interview, a bibliography, and the publishers each author actually worked with — cross-linked into the directory.
TraditionalAlaa Al-Barkawi
Young adult · Contemporary fiction · United States
First-generation Iraqi American writer centering SWANA and diaspora stories in her 2026 debut, In the Country I Love.
TraditionalHadeer Elsbai
Adult fantasy · Historical fantasy · United States / Egypt
Egyptian-American writer and librarian blending modern Egyptian history, feminist politics, elemental magic, and sapphic romance.
TraditionalA. K. Larkwood
Epic fantasy · Science fantasy · Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford-based fantasy writer whose first two novels pair epic scale, strange worlds, and sharply drawn queer characters.