Sara Abou Rashed is an Arab American poet and public speaker. Her writings appear in Poetry Magazine, Poetry Wales, The Kenyon Review, The LA Review of Books as well as the anthology A Land With A People and the latest High School English curriculum from McGraw Hill, among others. At 19, Sara created the autobiographical one-woman show, A Map of Myself, narrating her family’s displacement story. A former poetry fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, Sara has delivered a TEDxTalk and won the 2023 Hopwood Graduate Poetry Prize. With a BA from Denison University and an MFA from the University of Michigan, Sara is currently working on publishing her first book and speaking across the country.