Holly Mason Badra

is a queer, Kurdish American writer living in Northern Virginia. She is the curatorial editor of Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora (The University of Arkansas Press). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Mizna, Everything is Political, MĀNOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, Meridian, The Arkansas International, The Rumpus, CALYX, Asymptote, Koukash Review, Rowayat, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She is the associate director of Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University. She reads for Poetry Daily and serves as the board vice president of Henar Press.