About Omar Al-Nakib

Omar Al-Nakib (b. 1994) is a Kuwaiti visual artist and poet. He has exhibited locally as a painter, and his illustrations for a translation of The Aeneid by David Hadbawnik have appeared in Word For/Word, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Denver Quarterly, Blackbox Manifold, and Caesura. His poetry has been published in Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, Silver Pinion, the AUKuwait Review, and Poetics for the More-than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry & Commentary.