Set between war-torn Syria and the West, Stripped to the Bone explores issues of identity, love, strife, courage and resilience in seven fictional portraits of Syrian women. Author and translator Ghada Alatrash is a doctoral student at the University of Calgary and has an MA in English Literature from the University of Oklahoma. One of her goals is to amplify the voices of the marginalized through her writings. Ghada also translated "So that the Poem Remains", by Youssef Abdul Samad.