Noor Naga is an Alexandrian writer who was born in Philly, raised in Dubai, and studied in Toronto. She is the 2019 winner of the DISQUIET Literary Prize for Fiction and her work has been published or is forthcoming in Granta, The Common, The Walrus, and more. Her verse-novel The Mistress Washes Prays is out in spring 2020 from McClelland and Stewart. She currently lives in Alexandria and is an editorial fellow at Words Without Borders.