Rebecca Ruth Gould is a writer, poet, translator, and scholar, and author of the award–winning books Writers & Rebels (2016) and Erasing Palestine (2023). Of her poetry chapbook Beautiful English (2021), Canadian poet Sabyasachi Nag has stated “These beautifully articulated pieces come to me as elegies, their sustained poignance pronounced in a language that transcends the very walls around which they seemed to have been crafted.” She has translated several books from Persian and Georgian. A two–time Pushcart Prize nominee, she was awarded the Creative Writing New Zealand Flash Fiction Competition prize in 2019 and has received a grant from the British Council for the “Arabic Poetry in Exile” project.