Nahla Hoballah is currently an instructor at the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at The American University in Cairo (AUC). She previously worked at the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies at AUC for three years before heading to Washington state to earn her MFA in nonfiction creative writing. While working to earn her MFA degree from Eastern Washington University (EWU), she taught English composition and creative writing to undergraduate students at EWU. She also worked as a responder in the university’s Writers’ Center.