Amira Hanafi is a poet and artist who makes texts, publications, games, and interactive digital works to bring different voices and characters into conversation with each other. Their works are widely accessible online. They are the author of the book Forgery (Green Lantern Press, 2010) and a number of works of digital literature, including A Dictionary of the Revolution, a documentation of language change in the aftermath of the 2011 Egyptian revolution that won the New Media Writing Prize, Denmark’s Public Library Prize for Electronic Literature, and an Artraker Award. Hanafi’s interactive poem, Mexicans in Canada, took home the Grand Prize at the 2023 edition of ArtFields.

Amira’s interest in the materiality of language permeates their creative work, which often explores themes of migration, belonging, and plurality of identity. Their work has been exhibited at Flux Factory in New York, Les Abattoirs Musée in France, the British Library, and in the Biennale Casablanca. Their writings have been published in Mizna, Fence, American Letters & Commentary, Index on Censorship, Matrix, and Makhzin. and Mexicans in Canada. He has taught writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, and, Coastal Carolina University, and he has received fellowships from Loghaven, Monson Arts, Sundress Academy of the Arts, the Clore Leadership Programme, and the New Museum.

Amira is Assistant Professor of Digital Publishing & Writing at Susquehanna University. Their article, “Language for the Fluid, Multiple, Unified Self,” appears in a recent issue of Materialities of Literature, and chronicles how she is using her current artistic practice to create liberatory language that is polyvocal, translingual, fluid, and changeable.