Originally from Harlingen, Texas, Gretchen McCullough’s stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Barcelona Review, World Literature Today, Story South, Guernica, The Millions, The Common, and the LA Review of Books. She was awarded a BA from Brown University in 1984 and earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama in 1995. Her books include Three Stories from Cairo (2011), Shahrazad’s Tooth (2013), Confessions of a Knight Errant (2022), and Shahrazad’s Gift (2024). She also co-translated Mohamed Metwalli's poetry collection, A Song by the Aegean Sea (2022). Currently, she is on the faculty at the American University in Cairo. She lives with her husband, the Egyptian poet, Mohamed Metwalli in Cairo.

Originally from Harlingen, Texas, Gretchen McCullough’s stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Barcelona Review, World Literature Today, Story South, Guernica, The Millions, The Common, and the LA Review of Books. She was awarded a BA from Brown University in 1984 and earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama in 1995. Her books include Three Stories from Cairo (2011), Shahrazad’s Tooth (2013), Confessions of a Knight Errant (2022), and Shahrazad’s Gift (2024). She also co-translated Mohamed Metwalli's poetry collection, A Song by the Aegean Sea (2022). Currently, she is on the faculty at the American University in Cairo. She lives with her husband, the Egyptian poet, Mohamed Metwalli in Cairo.

Originally from Harlingen, Texas, Gretchen McCullough’s stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Barcelona Review, World Literature Today, Story South, Guernica, The Millions, The Common, and the LA Review of Books. She was awarded a BA from Brown University in 1984 and earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama in 1995. Her books include Three Stories from Cairo (2011), Shahrazad’s Tooth (2013), Confessions of a Knight Errant (2022), and Shahrazad’s Gift (2024). She also co-translated Mohamed Metwalli's poetry collection, A Song by the Aegean Sea (2022). Currently, she is on the faculty at the American University in Cairo. She lives with her husband, the Egyptian poet, Mohamed Metwalli in Cairo.