Pauline Kaldas immigrated from Egypt with her family at the age of eight. She returned to Egypt several times and lived there for three years while teaching at the American University in Cairo. She is the author of The Measure of Distance (novel), Looking Both Ways (essays), The Time Between Places (stories), Letters from Cairo (memoir), Egyptian Compass (poetry), and the textbook, Writing the Multicultural Experience. She also co-edited Dinarzad’s Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction and Beyond Memory: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Creative Nonfiction. She was awarded a fellowship in fiction from the Virginia Commission of the Arts and has been in residency at MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Arts, the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow, South Porch, Green Olive Arts in Morocco, and 360XQMX in Mexico. She is currently Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hollins University.