Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, researcher, and librarian born and raised in Gaza. With a degree in English language and literature, he taught at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) schools in Gaza from 2016 to 2019 and founded the Edward Said Library, the first English-language library in Gaza.

From 2019 to 2020, Abu Toha was a visiting poet in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University; a visiting librarian at Harvard's Houghton Library; and a fellow at the Initiative on Religion, Conflict, and Peace at Harvard Divinity School. Abu Toha gave guest lectures and readings at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and the University of Arizona in 2020. He also spoke at the American Library Association (ALA) conference in Philadelphia in January 2020. In October 2021, he was a guest lecturer in the Literatures of Destruction, Exile, and Resistance program at the University of Notre Dame, where he spoke about his poetry and work in Gaza.