Sahar Mustafah

Sahar Mustafah is a Palestinian American writer based in Chicago, where she writes and teaches. Her fiction often explores her identity as the daughter of Palestinian immigrants. Her first novel, The Beauty of Your Face, was named a 2020 Notable Book by the New York Times Book Review. Her most recent novel, The Slightest Green (Interlink Books, 2025), follows a young American woman who travels to her ancestral home in Palestine. World Literature Today has published her fiction, including 'The Bodies' in its Summer 2021 issue.