Hera Naguib holds a doctorate in creative writing from Florida State University, focusing on global and transnational poetry. Winner of the 2023 John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award and the 2022 Quaterly West Poetry Prize, her work has been published or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, TriQuarterly, The Academy of American Poets, New England Review, The Cincinnati Review, Wasafiri, World Literature Today and elsewhere.