Sakina Fakhri received her B.A. in literature from Northwestern University and completed her M.A. at NYU. Committed to writing in all of its forms (except the factual!), she believes that, given enough time and enough creativity, nothing should ever have to be said in quite the same way twice. Her literary aesthetic tends towards theme-driven ornate prose, lyrical fiction, controlled absurdism, and political satire. Her first novel manuscript, "The Speech Of Flowers and Voiceless Things," probes the idea of a web of globalized mistranslations against a backdrop of a personable philanthropic enterprise and a caricaturesque dictator. Her first short film, "The Word Trader," debuted in 2013 internationally at the Cannes Film Festival Court Metrage and nationally at the Manhattan Film Festival. She continues to develop television and feature film concepts as she writes her second novel, which intertwines motifs of micro-trading, blindness, particle physics, and ballet.