Yasmine Seale

Yasmine Seale is a poet and translator. Among her translations from Arabic are The Annotated Arabian Nights (2021), described by the New Yorker as "an electric new translation", and Something Evergreen Called Life, a collection of poems by Rania Mamoun (2023). Other books include Agitated Air: Poems after Ibn Arabi, a collaboration with Robin Moger (2022).

Her writings on literature, art and film have appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, Paris Review and elsewhere. Her visual works have been exhibited at the British Museum, the Courtauld Gallery in London, and the Center for Contemporary Arts in Berlin.

A contributing editor at Bidoun magazine, she is the recipient of the 2020 Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry, and of grants and fellowships from the Wolfson Foundation, Koç University in Istanbul, and the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris. In 2023, she was named a Fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.