Mai Serhan is a writer, editor and translator. She earned her BA in English & Comparative Literature and MA in Modern Arabic Literature from the American University in Cairo, as well as an MSt in Creative writing from the University of Oxford. Her poetry collection CAIRO: the undelivered letters was the recipient of the 2022 Center for Book Arts Poetry Award, the FH Pasby Prize from the University of Oxford, and shortlisted for the 2022 Quarterly West Poetry Award. She is the author of I Can Imagine It For Us: a Palestinian daughter's memoir, a finalist for the 2022 Narratively Memoir Prize and forthcoming with AUC Press in 2025.