Elmaz Abinader is an Arab American literary activist, writer, and performer. She has a memoir: Children of the Roojme, A Family’s Journey from Lebanon, and two books of poetry, In the Country of My Dreams…winner of PEN Oakland and This House, my Bones.  Find recent work at Terrain and Michigan Quarterly review and around.  Elmaz was a co-founder of VONA/Voices and lives in the Bay Area.

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