Osama Alomar

Osama Alomar was born in Damascus, Syria, in 1968. A well-known writer of short stories, poetry, and essays, Alomar published Fullblood Arabian in 2014, his first volume in English translation. His new collection of short stories, The Teeth of the Comb, was published by New Directions in April 2017. His writing has been published in Coffin Factory, The Literary Review, Ploughshares, Gigantic, Dissent, Triquarterly, and The New Yorker. (Photo credit: Chicago Reader)