N.S. Nuseibeh is a British-Palestinian writer and researcher, born and raised in East Jerusalem. Her interests include issues around identity, ethics, inequality and education. She has previously written for the Atlantic and been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Namesake won the RSL Giles St Aubyn Award as a work-in-progress and went on to win both the Guild of Food Writers Award and the Jhalak Prose Prize in 2025.