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Aiya Sakr (she/they) is a Palestinian-American poet and artist. They are the author of Her Bones Catch the Sun (The Poet’s Haven, 2018). Her writing has appeared in Foglifter, Mizna, The Rumpus, and elsewhere, and her art has been featured in ATL Radical Art's Threads of Resistance. She is a co-organizer for In Water and Light, a regular community building space and reading series for Palestine. She is also a Winter 2023 Tin House Fellow, and has served as Poetry Editor for Sycamore Review. They hold an MFA in Poetry from Purdue University. She collects buttons, and is enthusiastic about birds.
Image Description: Aiya Sakr, a person with brown skin and a brown curly bob, smiles widely at the camera. They wear red glasses, silver pomegranate dangle earrings, and a white eyelet sundress. She is surrounded by clusters of bushy purple flowers, some of which cover her chin and chest.
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