Threa Almontaser

Threa Almontaser is a Yemeni-American writer, translator, and multimedia artist from New York City. She is a MFA graduate from North Carolina State University and the recipient of scholarships from the Tin House Writers' Workshop, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, The Kerouac House in Orlando, among others. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets, her work is published in or forthcoming from Penguin Random House, The Offing, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Adroit Journal, Passages North, and elsewhere. She writes on the thin membrane that separates human from what we loosely call animal, and believes writing should not only entertain, but provoke. She is currently teaching English to immigrants and refugees and working on several projects, including a debut poetry collection and her first novel.

https://www.threawrites.com/