Nada Faris is a writer, teaching-artist, and performance poet based in Kuwait. She is an Honorary Fellow in Writing at Iowa University’s International Writing Program (IWP) Fall 2013; an alumna of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) April 2018, USA: Empowering Youth Through the Performance Arts; and the recipient of an Arab Woman Award from Harper Bazaar Arabia 2018 in the category of Inspirational Woman.