Zeina Azzam is a Palestinian American poet, editor, and community activist. She volunteers for organizations that promote Palestinian rights and the civil rights of vulnerable communities in Alexandria, Virginia, where she is active with the group Grassroots Alexandria. She also serves as a mentor for We Are Not Numbers, a writing program for youth in Gaza. Zeina’s chapbook, Bayna Bayna, In-Between, is published by The Poetry Box. Her poems appear in Pleiades, Cordite Poetry Review, Mizna, Sukoon Magazine, Split This Rock, Passager, Barzakh: A Literary Magazine, Voice Male, and the edited volumes Tales from Six Feet Apart, Bettering American Poetry, Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by and for Refugees, and Gaza Unsilenced, among others. Zeina holds an M.A. in Arabic literature from Georgetown University.