Gretchen McCullough

was raised in Harlingen, Texas. After graduating from Brown University in 1984, she taught in Egypt, Turkey and Japan. She earned her M.F.A. from the University in Alabama and was awarded a Teaching Fulbright to Syria from 1997-1999.

Her stories and essays have appeared in: The Texas Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Barcelona Review, Archipelago, National Public Radio, Storysouth and Storyglossia, among others.

Currently, she teaches creative writing at the American University in Cairo.

She co-translated with the author Mohamed Metwalli, a selection of his poems published in Banipal 32.