Rania Mamoun is a best-selling writer and activist from Sudan. Her collection Thirteen Months of Sunrise, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette, was a finalist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Mamoun lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she has been a writer in residence at the City of Asylum since 2019.
Digital illustration by Emily Holson, Eyes of the Withholder (2024)Tensions build between a child and a tree, both grappling for the attention of a mother.
The lemon tree was a gift from our…
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