Fatin Abbas

About

Fatin Abbas is a Sudanese-American academic and writer. Having spent most of her youth with her family in New York City and for academic studies in the United Kingdom and the US, she has become known for her essays and non-fiction writing about Sudan, as well as for her short stories and her 2023 debut novel Ghost season. After obtaining her PhD in Comparative Literature at Harvard University, she has taught fiction writing at Massachusetts Institue of Technology, at Pratt Institute in the U.S., and Comparative Literature at Bard College in Berlin, Germany.