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Youmna Melhem Chamieh is a French‑Lebanese writer and editor.
Her stories and essays have appeared in outlets including Harper's Magazine, Zoetrope, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the Harvard Human Rights Review and the Financial Times. She has worked in television (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), film development (Stay Gold Features), advertising (L'Oréal, Pernod Ricard) and magazine publishing (Guernica).
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard in 2022, where she was the recipient of a Detur Book Prize, Cyrilly Abels Short Story Prize, Harvard Monthly Prize, Edmond & Lily Safra Fellowship in Ethics, and John Harvard Scholarship. Her work has been supported by the Harvardwood Artist Launch Fellowship, the Purposeful Fellowship, and the writing residency at the Mediterranean Artists Project.