Kamelya Youssef is a poet, educator and literary worker. She's the author of "A Book With a Hole In It" (2022, Wendy's Subway), she's also the co-writer of the play "Kilo Batra: In Death More Radiant" (2021, A Host of People). Her poems and lyric essays have been published by Mizna, The Academy of American Poets, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poet Love and elsewhere. She currently teaches poetry at The City University of New York and is senior poetry editor of Guernica.