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Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab is a designer, educator, and publisher who was born but not raised in Khartoum, Sudan. She is interested in language, form, and specificity, alongside media, Black studies, and popular culture. Shiraz holds a BA in Public Policy Studies from the University of Chicago and an MFA in 2D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has taught and lectured at California College of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Yale School of Art, Purchase College, Otis College of Art and Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Rutgers University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work has been featured in IDEA Magazine, Amalgam, Spine Magazine, and AIGA Eye on Design, and in 2022, she contributed an essay to Geoff Kaplan's After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet: A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy. Shiraz is a book design and production specialist at the University of Michigan Press, where she designs books on subjects that include political science, music and performance, disability studies, sexuality studies, and poetry.