Maha Abdelwahab is a poet and a Literature and Creative Writing PhD candidate at UH specializing in Empire Studies. She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon where she was the recipient of the Promising Scholar Award. Her work can be found in The Adroit Journal, Rusted Radishes, The Recluse and elsewhere. Her research interests include Arabic-to-English translation, colonial Egypt, and Arab-American diasporic literature exploring abolition, gender, liberation, geography, imperialism and neoimperialism. 

Email: maabdelw@cougarnet.uh.edu