Layla AlAmmar

Layla AlAmmar grew up in Kuwait and studied creative writing at the University of Edinburgh. Her writing has appeared in The Evening Standard, Quail Bell Magazine, The Red Letters St Andrews Prose Journal and Aesthetica Magazine, among other publications. She was a finalist for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award in 2014. In 2018, she was a British Council writer in residence at the Small Wonder Short Story Festival. Das Schweigen in mir is her second novel.