Eman Hassan is a biracial poet who was raised between the United States and Kuwait. Her poems have appeared or will appear in Blackbird, Illuminations, and Aldus Journal of Translation, among other journals. She is the recipient of an MFA from Arizona State University and is currently a PhD candidate of poetry at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has worked as the International Poetry Editor at Hayden’s Ferry Review and as an Associate Editor at Prairie Schooner. She is also one of the founding members of the American University of Kuwait