Maryam Ivette Parhizkar is a writer, musician, and scholar interested in sound, resonance, migration, family myths, and finding ways to use them to work through the constraints of the English language. She is the author of another chapbooks: Pull: a ballad (The Operating System, 2014) and As For the Future (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2016). Recent work can also be found online in Brooklyn Rail, Gesture, and the Essay Press chapbook Labor Poetic Labor! She is part of the editorial collective of small publisher Litmus Press, and a PhD student in African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University.