SAHAR MURADI is the author of the chapbooks [ G A T E S ]; A Garden Beyond My Hand; and Ask Hafiz: A Migration Story Told through Poetic Divination. She is the co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature and EMERGENC(Y): Writing Afghan Lives beyond the Forever War: An Anthology of Writing from Afghanistan and Its Diaspora, and the co-author of A Ritual in X Movements. A recipient of the Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award and the Patrons’ Prize for Emerging Writers from Thornwillow Press, she was also a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Muradi is a co-founder of the Afghan American Artists & Writers Association.