Nomi Stone is the author of the poetry collection Stranger's Notebook: Poems, an MFA candidate in poetry at Warren Wilson College, and a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at Columbia University. She earned a master’s in modern Middle Eastern studies from Oxford and was a creative writing Fulbright scholar in Tunisia. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Drunken Boat, Plume, and elsewhere. She has lived in Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, and Jordan.