Thuraya Salih, born and raised in Omdurman in 1998, is a self-taught writer, who started publishing her work in The Sudanist (500Words Magazine) in 2019, and in Andariya Magazine in 2020. She recently became an Editor at Andariya Magazine. She is interested in the intersectionality between arts, culture and sociopolitical topics such as identity and feminism, most of her writings share a theme of being centred around youth.