Osama Alomar (b. 1968) is the author of three collections of short stories and a volume of poetry in Arabic. Born in Damascus, Syria, he now lives in Pittsburgh, where he is the writer in residence at the City of Asylum and performs as a musician. His short stories have been published in Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Words Without Borders, The Southern Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Conjunctions, Vice, Guernica, Electric Literature, Noon, The Coffin Factory, Painted Bride Quarterly, Gigantic, The Literary Review, and Dissent. New Directions published Fullblood Arabian, a pamphlet-sized collection, in 2014, and the story collection The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories in 2017. The latter was also released this year in Spain.
Christian Collins is a librarian and a translator based in Compton, Quebec.
