Soukaina Habiballah was born in 1989 in Casablanca. She is the author of the poetry collections A Quarter Century of Sight (2014) and There’s No Need for You (2015). Her first novel, The Barracks, is forthcoming. She has received several awards and grants for her work, including the 2015 Buland Al Haidari Prize for young Arab poets, and her poems have been translated into French, English, German, and Spanish.