ANDRÉ NAFFIS-SAHELY is the author of The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin, 2017). His translations include works by Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Abdellatif Laâbi, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Alessandro Spina. His wrting has appeared in Playboy, The Nation and World Literature Today. He is the editor of The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (Pushkin Press, 2019). The Other Side of Nowhere is his first pamphlet.