André Naffis-Sahely is the author of the collection The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin, 2017) and the editor of The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (Pushkin Press, 2020). He is from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, but was born in Venice, Italy, to an Iranian father and an Italian mother. He has translated over twenty titles of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from French and Italian. He is the editor of Poetry London.