Banah Ghadbanah is a nonbinary Syrian writer (pronouns: zhe, she, they) published in As/Us: Queer Issue, Sukoon, an Arab-themed literary magazine, Aunt Chloe: a Journal for Artful Candor, Passage & Place: A Print Anthology on Home, Acting Up: Queer in the New Century Anthology, the Afghan Punk Magazine, and others. Banah was a finalist in the Feminist Wire’s poetry competition and won the Hamsa: Dream Deferred Essay Contest for Civil Rights in the Middle East. A jewelry artist and poet, zhe is currently a PhD Candidate working on her dissertation about Syrian women’s creative work in revolution and war.