About me
Deena ElGenaidi is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. She wrote, directed, and produced the award-winning comedy web series Codependent. She is a former TV News Writer for Primetimer and a former editor for Hyperallergic. Her writing has been featured in Vulture, Insider, Nylon, MTV News, Oprah Daily, Longreads, Electric Literature, Lithub, and more. She is currently working on a novel about Egyptian-Americans living between two cultures and is represented by Monica Rodriguez at Context Literary Agency.
She holds her MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Camden and her MA in English from Villanova University. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @deenaelg
Photo by Sylvie Rosokoff