Badriya Al-Badri (Oman) is a poet and novelist, born in Muscat, Oman in 1975. She has two published novels: Behind Loss (2015) and The Last Crossing (2017). She has won several prizes in Oman and other Gulf countries for her poetry, in standard Arabic and dialect, and for her novels, including first prize from the Omani Literary Forum for Behind Loss, in 2013. In 2014, she won second prize in the Gulf-wide Rashid bin Hamid competition, for free verse in standard Arabic. Badriya Al-Badri writes for the Murshid magazine and works as an IT teacher.