Alammar, Layla: - Layla Alammar is a writer and academic from Kuwait.
She is currently pursuing a PhD on the intersection of Arab women\'s fiction and literary trauma theory..
She has written for The Guardian and ArabLit Quarterly .
Her debut novel, The Pact We Made , was published in 2019.
She was the 2018 British Council international writer in residence at the Small Wonder Short Story Festival.
Andrews Prose Journal , and Aesthetica Magazine , where her story The Lagoon was a finalist for the 2014 Creative Writing Award.
Her short stories have appeared in the Evening Standard , Quail Bell Magazine , the Red Letters St.
She has a master\'s degree in creative writing from the University of Edinburgh.
Alammar, Layla: - Layla Alammar is a writer and academic from Kuwait