Pınar Banu Yaşar

is an East Coast based Kurdish writer. Her work builds a relationship between dance and poetry that explores questions on national identity, linguicide, bordering, and the intersections of erotic movement and diasporic migration. She has been published in various journals and anthologies, most recently in Mizna’s Futurities issue and Sleeping in the Courtyard: An Anthology of Contemporary Kurdish Writers. Yaşar co-founded the Kurdish Poets Collective.