Nazry Bahrawi is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Literature and Culture, and Program Coordinator of the Southeast Asian Program at the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is currently working on a manuscript exploring the intersections between animal narratives and racial discourses in the Malay-Indonesian world. His work on racialism, folklore, literary Islam and translation have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. He is an editor-at-large at Wasafiri literary magazine on international contemporary writing and has published short stories and literary translations from Bahasa to English.