Mona KareemMona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections. She held fellowships and residencies with Tufts University, Princeton University, Poetry International, Arab-American National Museum, Norwich Center, and Forum Transregionale Studien. She is a rcipient of a 2021 NEA literary grant. Her work has been translated into nine languages, and appeared (in English) in LitHub, The Common, Brooklyn Rail, Michigan Quarterly, Fence, Ambit, Poetry London, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, Poetry International, PEN English, Modern Poetry in Translation, Two Lines, and Specimen. Kareem holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Her translations include Ashraf Fayadh’s Instructions Within (nominated for a BTBA award), Ra’ad Abdulqadir’s Except for this Unseen Thread, and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. Read More Read Less