Alice Guthrie is a translator, editor and event producer specialising in contemporary Arabic literature and media. Since 2008 her translations have appeared in a range of international publications and venues, her work often focusing on Syria, where she studied Arabic between 2001 and 2003. As an editorial consultant she works bilingually on Arabic-English translations for various literary presses and journals, and monolingually across a range of English texts. She is curator and producer of the literary strand of Shubbak, London’s biennial festival of Arab arts and culture, and she lives in Bristol.