Sarah E. Azizi was born in Shiraz, city of poets and roses, during the last hour of July in 1976. Two years later, she arrived in the United States. Sarah received her BA from Goucher College; since 2002 she’s lived in New Mexico, where she snagged an MFA and has rooted herself as a queer activist and educator. Her work has appeared in Blue Mesa Review, Fahmidan Journal, Nine Mile, The Coop, Honey Literary, Emerge Literary Journal, Free State Review, Rattle,and other wonderful publications. Sarah has had poems anthologized in Rituals from Bell Press and Not Ghosts but Spirits from Querencia Press. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart. Sarah’s debut collection, Make a Wish, is available now from ELJ-Editions. She lives with her daughter, among friends, family of choice, and piles of unfinished work. Follow her all over: @SEAziziWrites.