Yahia Lababidi is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, including Palestine Wail (Daraja Press, 2024) and On the Contrary: Oscar Wilde & Friedrich Nietzsche (Fomite Press, 2025). His writing appears in Liberties, AGNI, World Literature Today, the New Statesman, and the New Arab, as well as on NPR and PBS. Born in Egypt, he lives in the United States and explores the meeting points of poetry, spirituality, and moral witness.