Originally from Sudan, Reem Gaafar is a writer, physician and filmmaker. Her fiction and non-fiction texts have been published notably in African Arguments, African Feminism, Teakisi Magazine and International Health Policies, as well as in the anthologies I Know Two Sudans and Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices. In 2020, she was a finalist for the Miles Morland Foundation scholarship. And her first novel,A Mouth Full of Salt, won the Island Prize in 2023. Reem Gaafar now lives in Canada with her husband and their three sons.