Jasmin Attia

Jasmin Attia is a 2021 graduate of the MFA program at Bennington College, and 2022 winner of the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature. She has attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and served as a mentor for the Cream Literary Alliance in West Palm Beach. Her essays have appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle, Lit Hub, Jewish Books Council’s “Paper Brigade Daily, and other publications.

She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Florida and an MBA from the University of Rochester. Jasmin lives with her family in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and came to writing as a second career. The Oud Player of Cairo is her debut novel, and she is currently at work on a new novel set in Egypt.