Marhaba!
Here is my professional bio:
Aiya Sakr—Ahh-ya—(she/they) is a Palestinian-American poet and artist. They are the author of Her Bones Catch the Sun (The Poet’s Haven, 2018). A Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared in Foglifter, Mizna, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is a co-organizer for In Water and Light, a regular community building space and reading series for Palestine. She is also a Winter 2023 Tin House Fellow, and has served as Poetry Editor for Sycamore Review and as Poetry Coordinator for Unootha Magazine's Summer Writing Program. They hold an MFA in Poetry from Purdue University. She collects buttons, and is enthusiastic about birds.
This is what I look like only sometimes.
Photo by Erike Truman
This is what I look like more often, B&W and all.
Photo by Kanika Ahuja
Here are some facts not in the professional bio:
I believed it was "in the Nile, crocodile" well into my twenties.
I'm a stutterer! Especially when reading out loud and speaking in Arabic.
There is a difference between a birder, a bird enthusiast, and someone enthusiastic about birds.
I once went to an estate sale two hours away only because it had a million buttons. It was fine.
Jumping spiders have the best vision among spiders. They will chase lasers the way cats do, and they can see details on the moon!
Here is my dog, Indigo.
He is a jerk.