Al-Malik, Harun is a Kuwaiti American writer and former electrical engineer based in Somerville, Massachusetts. Born in 1985 in Kuwait City and raised between Dearborn and Boston, he studied electrical engineering at Wayne State University and earned an MFA from UMass Boston. His fiction and essays have appeared in The Common, Gulf Coast, and Electric Literature, and his short work has been honored by the Arab American Book Awards. He has taught community writing workshops, consulted on STEM-to-storytelling initiatives, and volunteers at a neighborhood tool library. When he is not writing, he tinkers with radios, walks the Harborwalk in all weather, and lives with his partner and an elderly cat named Ohm.
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