Tala Abu Rahmeh is a therapist, writer and translator based in New York City. Born to a refugee father and an internally displaced mother, Tala grew up between Jordan and Palestine. You can find her writing in LA Review of Books, Enizagam, 34th Parallel, Blast Furnace, Timberline Review, Kweli, Penn Center USA, and most recently in We Call to the Eye & to the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Descent (Persea Books, 2023). Tala holds an MFA in Poetry from American University and a master’s in social work from Columbia University.