Tariq Luthun is a Detroit-born Palestinian community organizer, data consultant, and Emmy Award-winning poet. He earned his MFA in Poetry from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Luthun currently serves as board member and development coordinator of The Offing, A Literary Magazine, after a two-year stint as editor of the Micro Department. His work has been named Best of the Net and has appeared in Vinyl Poetry, Lit Hub, Mizna, and Button Poetry, among other credits. His first collection of poetry, “How the Water Holds Me,” was awarded Editors’ Selection by Bull City Press and is available now.