Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet, novelist, translator and scholar. He has published five novels and two collections of poetry, the most recent is Postcards from the Underworld (Seagull Books, 2023). His own translation of his second novel, The Corpse Washer, won 2014 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize and the Arab American Book Prize. His translations include Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence which won the 2012 American Literary Translators Association Award. Antoon returned to his native Baghdad in 2003 to co-direct a documentary, About Baghdad. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya and associate professor at New York University.