Ahlam Bsharat is a Palestinian writer who grew up in a village in northern Palestine and obtained a master’s degree in literature from An-Najah National University in Nablus. She has authored poetry, picture books, short stories, novels, and memoirs, as well as a number of television and radio scripts (in Arabic), winning numerous awards and recommendations for her work. Her poem “I Saw a Dead Road on the Road” has been posted recently by ArabLit Quarterly at https://arablit.org/2021/05/20/new-poetry-by-ahlam-bsharat-i-saw-a-dead-road-on-the-road/. For more information, please visit https://www.palestinewrites.org/participants-1/ahlam-bsharat. You can follow Ahlam on Twitter @ahlambsharaa