Elena Dudum

Elena Dudum is a Palestinian-American writer whose work has appeared in Vogue, The Atlantic, TIME, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and Bon Appétit, among others. She was awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2025 for They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful, as well as the 2024 LANDO Grant from The de Groot Foundation. She has received additional support from Hedgebrook, Tin House, and Sewanee. Born in San Francisco, she now lives between New York and London.