Fatin Abbas

Fatin Abbas is the author of GHOST SEASON: A NOVEL (W.W. Norton/US & Canada; Jacaranda/UK, 2023; Rowohlt Berlin/Germany, 2024) and BLACK TIME: SCRITTI SULL’INVISIBILE / ESSAYS ON THE INVISIBLE (Trans. Paolo Bassotti; Wetlands Books 2025). GHOST SEASON was longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, selected as one of the ‘Best African Books of 2023’ by African Arguments, as one of ‘100 Notable African Books of 2023’ by Brittle Paper, and as one of ‘Top 5 African Books of 2023’ by The Continent. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, Freeman’s, The Warwick Review, and Friction, and her journalism and review essays have appeared in The Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique, The Nation, The Berlin Review, Zeit Online, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Africa is a Country, and openDemocracy, among other places. She has been a Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholar (UK), a Fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and Schloss Wiepersdorf (Germany), a Writer-in-Residence at the Jan Michalski Foundation (Switzerland), a Maison Baldwin St. Paul de Vence Writer-in-Residence (France), and an Austrian Federal Chancellery/KulturKontakt Artist-in-Residence (Austria). Born in Khartoum, Sudan and raised in New York, she gained her BA in English from the University of Cambridge, her PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College, the City University of New York. She teaches fiction writing in the department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT.