Micaela Kaibni Raen is a Palestinian American creator, cultural worker, queer femme-dyke, mother, and global Queer/Trans activist. She grew up in the Little Arabia community in California and graduated from Chapman University. During that time, she participated in the Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc., ACT UP!, and Queer Nation. She is known for Queer Tatreez, a style of visual art and poetics inspired by Indigenous Palestinian Tatreez embroidery. Her work has garnered the Yalda Award as well as nominations for The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her work appears in Bint el Nas; Mizna; Qafiyah Review; Writers Resist; Yellow Medicine Review; The Poetry of Arab Women; The Olive Tree; El Ghourabaa; Ask the Night for a Dream; and Heaven Looks Like Us.

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