Lina Tibi

was born in 1963 in Damascus, Syria, and has lived in Kuwait, UAE, Lebanon, Cyprus, the UK, France and Egypt. She published her first collection of poetry in 1989 and her latest in 2008. She has read her poetry at international festivals and is published in many magazines. She was co-founder of Al-Katiba [The Woman Writer], an influential literary magazine based in London that published for 14 issues. Later, she was a columnist for Azzaman newspaper (1997-2000). Selected works have been published in Spanish, English, French, Italian German and Russian translation.