Sinan Antoon (Arabic: سنان أنطون), is an Iraqi poet, novelist, scholar, and literary translator.

"[1] Alberto Manguel described him as "one of the great fiction writers of our time.” He is an associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.

"He was one of a coterie of dissident diasporic Iraqi intellectuals who opposed the 2003 US occupation of his homeland that led to the current post-colonial quagmire.

His articles have appeared in The Guardian,[5] The New York Times,[6] The Nation,[7] and in pan-Arab dailies including al-Hayat, al-Akhbar and as-Safir [8] where he writes a weekly opinion column.

He has published two collections in English;The Baghdad Blues (Harbor Mountain Press, 2006) and Postcards from the Underworld (Seagull Books, 2023).