Hisham Bustani is an award-winning Jordanian author of short fiction and poetry. English translations of his work have appeared in many journals, including the Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, the New England Review, Black Warrior Review, The Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, and World Literature Today. His book, The Perception of Meaning, won the University of Arkansas Arabic Translation Award, and he is the recipient of the 2017 Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Fellowship for Artists and Writers. The Monotonous Chaos of Existence has just been released from Mason Jar Press.