Zeina Azzam is a Palestinian American poet, writer, editor, and community activist. She is the poet laureate of the City of Alexandria, Virginia, for 2022-2025 and has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. Her poems appear in over fifty literary journals, webzines, edited volumes, and anthologies. Zeina’s full-length poetry collection, titled Some Things Never Leave You, was published in 2023 and her chapbook, Bayna Bayna, In-Between, in 2021. She has volunteered as a mentor for We Are Not Numbers since 2015. Visit her website.