Ahmed Shafie (poet, fiction writer, translator; Egypt) is the author of the poetry collection وقصائد أخرى [and Other Poems] (2009) and the novel الخالق [The Creator] (2013). He has translated Charles Simic, Billy Collins, Lucille Clifton, and an anthology of Afro-American poems into Arabic. Shafie writes for the poetry translation blog أصوات من هناك [Distant Voices], and blogs at قراءات أحمد شافعي [Readings of Ahmed Shafie].