Bushra Khalfan is a best-selling Omani short story writer, novelist, poet, and journalist. Daughter of Happy won the Katara Prize (2022) and was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2022).

Alice Guthrie is an independent British scholar of contemporary SWANA verbal culture. Her work spans literary translation, oral history, editing, curation, research, teaching, literary agenting, and advocacy.