Hajer Requiq

is an emerging female poet from Tunisia, twice picked as a semi-finalist in the Button Poetry Chapbook Contest for the years 2022 and 2023. Most recently, she has been selected as a finalist in the 2025 Lucky Jefferson Poetry Contest, shortlisted for the 2025 Foster Poetry Prize, and nominated for the 2025 Pushcart Prize by the Disquieting Muses Quarterly. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Lunch Ticket, Poetry Ireland, and Chestnut Review, among others. Requiq also writes Arabic poetry, which has been featured in Iraq Palm, Al Oma Al Thaqafia, Uruk Newspaper, and elsewhere.