Suneela Mubayi is a translator, independent scholar, and writer of Kashmiri-Indian and American-Jewish descent, whose interests stand at the juncture where language, the body, and poetry intersect. She completed a PhD in Arabic literature from NYU with a thesis on vagabond poets between classical and modern Arabic poetry. She has translated close to 100 essays, poems, and fiction pieces between Arabic, English, and Urdu for publications such as Banipal, Words Without Borders, Asymptote, Jadaliyya, Mada Masr, and elsewhere. She was the joint recipient of a translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and likes linguistic puns, Iraqi maqam and Syrian TV serials.