Lisa Suhair Majaj is the author of the prize-winning poetry volume Geographies of Light, published by Del Sol Press. Jimmy Santiago Baca is a Chicano and Apache poet living in New Mexico. Jericho Brown is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Deesha Philyaw is the author of the award-winning short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. “Aysha” is a woman from Kabul, Afghanistan.

Aysha on Reveal: https://revealnews.org/podcast/for-20-years-i-saw-no-peace/

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