Ayesha Raees عائشہ رئیس identifies herself as a hybrid creating hybrid poetry through hybrid forms. Her work strongly revolves around issues of race and identity, G/god and displacement, and mental illness while possessing a strong agency for accessibility, community, and change. Raees currently serves as an assistant poetry editor for AAWW’s The Margins and has received fellowships from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Brooklyn Poets, and Kundiman. Her debut chapbook, Coining a Wishing Tower, won the Broken River Prize and was published by Platypus Press. From Lahore, Pakistan, she currently shifts between Lahore, New York City, and Miami.