Rasha is a queer Palestinian Southerner who grew up between Damascus and rural Georgia and cut their teeth organizing on the southsides of Chicago and Atlanta. They are a cultural worker, educator, community technologist, a once and future farmer and beekeeper, as well as a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers and Alternate ROOTS. Their work has appeared in Mslexia, Mizna, Room, |tap| magazine, and at sinnerscreek.com. They are a contributor to Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler (Twelfth Planet Press, 2017).