Alana Levinson-LaBrosse

is a poet, translator, and the Director of Kashkul at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. Her book-length works include Farhad Pirbal’s Potato Eaters (2023), Temo’s Nightlands (2024), Something Missing From This World (2024), Dream State (2025), Hero Kurda’s I Write Yousif (2027), and Exile is Arrival (2027), an anthology of twelve nineteenth-century Sorani Kurdish poets co-translated and co-edited with Shene Mohammed. Other writing has appeared in Poetry, Modern Poetry in Translation, World Literature Today, The Iowa Review, and Words Without Borders. She was a 2022 NEA Fellow, the first ever working from the Kurdish.