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Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, scholar, and librarian who was born in Gaza and has spent his life there. In 2025, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his essays on Gaza, featured in The New Yorker. He is the founder of the Edward Said Library, Gaza’s first English-language library. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear is his debut book of poems. The collection won an American Book Award, a 2022 Palestine Book Award and was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, as well as the 2022 Walcott Poetry Prize. His second poetry book, Forest of Noise (Knopf, 2024), was named a NYT Notable Book of the Year and won the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize. He was named to the 2026 CULT100 list by Cultured Magazine.
Tatiana Johnson-Boria (she/her) is the author of Nocturne in Joy (2023), winner of the 2024 Julia Ward Howe Book Prize in Poetry. As a trauma-informed educator, artist, facilitator, and mother; she uses her writing practice to dismantle racism, reckon with trauma, cultivate healing, and to explore the complex magic of mothering. She has received fellowships and awards from Tin House (now the McCormack Writing Center), the Massachusetts Cultural Council, MacDowell, the Brother Thomas Fellowship, and St. Botolph Club Foundation, among others. Tatiana is a 2017 Pushcart Prize nominee, teaches at GrubStreet, and has been on faculty at Emerson College, among other institutions. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, and more. She is represented by Lauren Scovel at Laura Gross Literary.
Illustration by Matt Rota, featured in The New Yorker’s “My Family’s Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza” by Mosab Abu Toha, published February 24, 2024.