Eli Tareq El-Bechelany Lynch

Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch was born in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal) but moved around a lot as a kid. They are an Arab writer, translator, and acquisitions editor at Metonymy Press living in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal) and the author knot body, published by Metatron Press in 2020, and The Good Arabs, published by Metonymy Press in 2021. The Good Arabs was granted the honorary mention for poetry by the Arab American Book Awards, the Khayrallah Prize honorary mention, and won the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. Their translation of Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay’s La fille d’elle-même from the French was published in Spring 2023 and was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award in 2024. They co-edited, with Samia Marshy, El Ghourabaa, an anthology of queer and trans writing by Arab and Arabophone writers, published June 2024.