Yanara Friedland is the author of Uncountry: A Mythology (Noemi Press) forthcoming in German translation with Mattes & Seitz. Abraq ad Habra: I will Create As I Speak, a digital chapbook, is available from Essay Press. She is Assistant Professor at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies and curates Mutter Courage, an occasional reading series at BRUNA Press + Archive in Bellingham.