Hoda Omran is a poet, novelist, editor and researcher. She studied political science at Cairo University and is completing a master’s thesis on cultural policies and feminist literature. Her published works include the poetry collection Naive and Sentimental (2016), with selected poems translated into Swedish and English; the novel Fish, Orange, Weed (Dar Al-Saqi, 2018), which received a grant from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and was shortlisted for the Sawiris Award in 2021; and the poetry collection Cairo (2022), General Egyptian Book Organization, poetry series), winner of the Helmy Salem Prize for Poetry. She has also published the poetry collection As If It Were Forgiveness (Safsafa, 2023) and the short story collection Violent Love (Kotob Khan, 2024). Her young adult novel project The Gamer’s Life received a Mophradat Writing Sabbaticals grant in 2021. Hoda has also worked as an editor at Kotob Khan publishing house.