Mira Mattar writes fiction, poetry and essays. She is a Palestinian and Jordanian from London, where she lives and works. She is the author of Yes, I Am A Destroyer (MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2020), Affiliation (Sad Press, 2021), The Bow (2021), and most recently the chapbook, And most of all I would miss the shadows of the tree’s own leaves cast upon its trunk by the orange streetlight in the sweet blue darks of spring (Veer2, 2023). Her work has been published in Granta, Vittles, The Chicago Review, Berfrois, Mute, Salvage, and elsewhere. She co-edited Anguish Language: Writing and Crisis (Archive Books, 2015) and is the editor of You Must Make Your Death Public: A Collection of Texts and Media on the Work of Chris Kraus (Mute Books, 2015). She has also edited for Decolonial Hacker, Mute, and Tilted Axis Press. She has taught writing at the Royal College of Art, the University of Southampton, and abroad. She has been awarded residencies at the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and elsewhere.