Muhammad Al-Zaqzouq is a writer, editor, and researcher from Khan Yunis, Gaza. His poetry collection Betrayed by the Soothsayers won the Al Khalili Poetry Prize in 2018, and he is co-editor, alongside Mahmoud Alshaer, of Letters from Gaza (2025). He has worked tirelessly to bring Gaza’s literature to the world’s attention. His own writings have appeared in publications such as The New York Review of Books Online and The Berlin Review, and have been translated into five European languages.