About the Author

Chip Rossetti

Chip Rossetti is an editor and translator with over twenty-five years’ experience at both trade and university presses. From 2011 until 2025, he was the editorial director of the bilingual Library of Arabic Literature series. He has a Ph.D. in Arabic literature from the University of Pennsylvania and has translated fiction by a number of contemporary Arabic authors, including Reem al-Kamali, Huda Hamed, Diaa Jubaili, Sonallah Ibrahim, and Ahmed Khaled Towfik.