Maureen Ghazal

(1995) is a poet, writer and performer. She graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in 2018 and won the El Hizjra literature prize for her poetry in the same year. Her work has been published in De Gids, De Revisor and Deus Ex Machina, among others. She has performed, at venues such as Crossing Border Festival, Read My World and the Winter Garden Festival. In her work, she writes about native soil, connecting languages and landscapes and womanhood. Maureen participates in Wintertuin's development programme and is currently working on a chapbook.