I Will Not Fold These Maps

Mona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections. Her poetry has been translated into nine languages, and appeared (in English) in: POETRY, Poetry Northwest, Michigan Quarterly, Poetry London and Modern Poetry in Translation, among others. She is a recipient of a 2021 literary grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Kareem holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and works as an assistant professor of Middle East Studies at Washington University St. Louis. Her translations include Ashraf Fayadh's Instructions Within (Operating System Press, 2016) (nominated for a BTBA award), Ra'ad Abdulqadir's Except for this Unseen Thread (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021), and Octavia Butler's Kindred (Takween publishing, 2020).