Ibrahim Fawzy

Ibrahim Fawzy (he/him/his) is a graduate fellow at CFD. He’s currently pursuing his MFA at Boston University. He’s a two-time graduate of the British Center for Literary Translation (BCLT) Summer School, and the European School of Literary Translation. He was awarded a mentorship with the National Center for Writing, UK (2022/2023) as a part of their Emerging Literary Translators Program. He was also a recipient of Culture Resource’s Wijhat grant. He’s the 2024 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellow with the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA). He’s an editor at Rowayat, Asymptote, and Minor Literatures, and podcasts at New Book Network (NBN). Ibrahim won a 2023 PEN Presents award for his Arabic to English translation of Kuwaiti author Khalid Al Nasrallah’s The White Line of Night. His translations, reviews and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in ArabLit Quarterly, Words Without Borders, Tint, PEN Transmissions, Consequence, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Poetry Ireland Review, The Massachusetts Review, Exchanges, The Markaz Review, and Babel, and in anthologies with the British National Centre for Writing, trace Press, and Deep Vellum.