LAMEES AL ETHARI is an Associate Professor (teaching stream) in the department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, where she teaches Creative Writing. She has published a collection of poems, titled From the Wounded Banks of the Tigris (2018), and Waiting for the Rain: An Iraqi Memoir (2019). Her poems have appeared in About Place Journal, The New Quarterly, The Malpais Review, Gilgamesh, and the anthology Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here. She is a nonfiction editor with The New Quarterly and a co-founder of The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop for Immigrant Women. Her volume Mothering and Inter/Generational Trauma (2025), with co-editor Maria Lombard, was recently published with Demeter Press. She is currently completing a collection of short stories titled, The Fortune Teller and Other Stories.
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