Fatin Abbas is the author of Ghost Season: A Novel (2023) / Zeit der Geister: Roman (2024), set in the borderlands of Sudan and South Sudan. She is also the author of the forthcoming collection of non-fiction essays, Black Time (2025). Born in Khartoum, Sudan, and raised in New York, she gained her PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and her MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College, the City University of New York.

My residency at the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen was nourishing in all kinds of ways: in the space and time that it provided for me to work with concentration on my book project, in the inspiring contact and exchange with a community of artists from all over the world, and in the contacts I made with regional literary initiatives, as well as events and readings I participated in in NRW. I appreciate how the residency brought these global and local/regional relationships together.