Saeed Teebi is an acclaimed writer and lawyer based in Toronto. His non-fiction has appeared in The Globe and Mail and The New Quarterly. His debut collection of short stories, Her First Palestinian — about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink — was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award. The title story was shortlisted for the 2021 CBC Short Story Prize.

Teebi was born to Palestinian parents in Kuwait and has lived in Canada since 1993. His non-fiction book, You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times, has been described as a vital, fearless memoir that explores what it means to be a Palestinian in this moment, the effects of the genocide on Palestinian art and imagination, and that to even claim a belonging to the land from a country thousands of miles away is an act of subversion.