Yousif M Qasmiyeh Author

Yousif M. Qasmiyeh is a scholar and poet whose interdisciplinary work bridges comparative literature and creative practice. He was awarded his doctorate by the University of Oxford, where he has also taught on the MSt in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation. At the University of Exeter, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate and co-lead of the Imagining Futures Baddawi Camp Lab. Until recently, he was the Writer in Residence of the Refugee Hosts project at UCL. The author of Writing the Camp (shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize) and Eating the Archive, Yousif is the Creative Encounters Editor at Migration and Society, and a Poetry Book Society Selector.