Mohsen Akhrif (Morocco) is a poet and writer, born in Al Araish, Morocco, in 1979. He has a PhD in Literature. He is the author of four poetry collections: Hymns of Departure (2001), Two Losing Horses (2009), winner of the Moroccan Channel Two Prize, and Taming Unbridled Dreams (2012). He has also published a novel, Partner in Love (2013), winner of the Moroccan Writers' Union Prize for the best novel by a young writer, and a short story collection, A Dream While Napping (2017), winner of the third prize of the Sharjah Prize for Arab Creativity in that year.