AYESHA RAEES identifies herself as a hybrid creating hybrid poetry through hybrid forms. She was a 2018-2019 Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop where she also now serves as an Assistant Poetry Editor. Her work has appeared in The Margins, Apogee, Cagibi, Wilderness, Cherry Tree, and elsewhere. Raees was shortlisted for the Judith Akbar Poetry Prize and won the University of Findlay’s Deanna Tully Contest. Her work has further been supported by the Millay Colony For the Arts, Brooklyn Poets, and AAWW. Raees is a graduate of Bennington College, and currently lives in New York City. Her website is: www.ayesharaees.com