Born in Palestine in 1974, Adania Shibli has twice been awarded the Young Writer’s Award-Palestine by the A.M. Qattan Foundation. Shibli has a Ph.D. in media and cultural studies from the University of East London. She currently lives in Berlin where she has a postdoctoral fellowship – Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Two books have appeared in English translation from Clockroot/Interlink:Touch (2011) and We Are All Equally Far from Love (2012).