Amal El-Mohtar is an Ottawa-born child of the Mediterranean, currently pursuing the elusive beast that is a PhD at the Cornwall campus of the University of Exeter, sharpening her quills for the hunt. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in several print and online venues including
Strange Horizons, Sybil's Garage, Mythic Delirium, Ideomancer, Abyss&Apex, Shimmer, and
Cabinet des Fees, and her poem "Song for an Ancient City" won the 2009 Rhysling Award. She co-edits
Goblin Fruit, an online quarterly dedicated to fantastical poetry, with Jessica P. Wick, and is presently working on a series of love-letters to Damascus masquerading as a collection of poems.
She also keeps a blog called
Voices on the Midnight Air as well as a
profile on Writertopia, and is in her first year of eligibility for the John W. Campbell Award.
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