Tawfiq Al-Shihi (Oman) is a writer and water engineer, born in Khasab, Oman, in 1979. He obtained a BA in Engineering from Sultan Qaboos University in 2003 and is Director of Works in the provinces of Khasab and Bakha for the Omani Water and Electricity Commission. His first non-fiction book, If They Had Known (2011) focused mainly on the history of science from Newton to Witten. This was followed by a short horror story collection entitled He Sells Death (2013), then another non-fiction work about the origins of mankind, Legends of the Forefathers (2016), and his first novel Forgetting and Forgotten in 2017.