Amal El-Mohtar (born 13 December 1984[1]) is a Canadian poet and writer of speculative fiction.

[9] Selected awards: This Is How You Lose the Time War was also a finalist for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award in the Novella category,[23] a finalist for the inaugural Ray Bradbury Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction at the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes,[24] and a finalist for the 2019 Kitschies in the Novel category.

[26] El-Mohtar announced in 2019 that the book has been optioned for television, with scripts to be written by herself and Gladstone.

[28] El-Mohtar was born in Ottawa, Ontario to a family of Lebanese descent.

[32] El-Mohtar's full bibliography includes an extensive list of short stories, poems, essays, and reviews.