Kamelya Omayma Youssef is the author of A book with a hole in it (Wendy's Subway 2022), which won the Carolyn Bush Award and later earned an Arab American Book Award for Poetry. She is a text and performance worker who teaches, edits, performs, and organizes events in Detroit, NY, and elsewhere. Her work is published by 1080Press, Mizna, Sukoon, the Margins, Poem-a-Day and elsewhere.