Naïma Msechu is a fiction writer. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame in 2022, and her BA in Literary Arts from Brown University in 2017. Her writing has been supported by the Tin House Workshop and a Nuoren Voiman Liitto residency at Villa Sarkia in Finland, and has appeared in the minnesota review, Thin Noon, Wigleaf, and The Masters Review: Volume VIII (an anthology curated by Kate Bernheimer), among others. She lives in Berlin, where she is working on her first novel.