Rasha Abdulhadi is the author of the chapbook Shell Houses (The Head & The Hand, 2017). A queer Palestinian Southerner who grew up between Damascus, Syria and rural Georgia, Abdelhadi cut their teeth organizing on the southsides of Chicago and Atlanta. Abdelhadi’s work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Lambda Literary Review, Mslexia, Mizna, and Room and is anthologized in Halal if You Hear Me, Stoked Words, and the Hugo-nominated collection Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler. Abdulhadi has received fellowships from The Poetry Foundation and Maryland State Arts Council and is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers, Justice for Muslims healing collective, and Alternate ROOTS.