Mai Serhan is a Palestinian writer who grew up in Egypt. She is the author of CAIRO: the undelivered letters, winner of the 2022 Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Award, I Have Never Been to the Place Where I am From, But I Will Imagine It For Us, a finalist for the 2022 Narratively Memoir Prize, and the poetry collection, A Thousand Minarets & No Sidewalks (Diwan Publishing, 2025). She holds an MSt in creative writing from Oxford University, and has studied at NYU and AUC. She lives in Cairo.