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Deema K. Shehabi is a poet and editor. Her first book, Thirteen Departures from the Moon, was published by Press 53. She’s also co-author, with Marilyn Hacker, of Diaspo/Renga, a book-length poem that involves a call and response in the tradition of Japanese renga. Deema’s poems have been widely published in literary journals, and she’s also co-editor with Beau Beausoleil of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, for which she received NCBR’s recognition award (see WLT, May 2012). She is also the winner of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Prize (2018), recipient of a Best of the Net nomination (2021), as well as several Pushcart prize nominations. Her work has been translated into Arabic, French, and Farsi. Deema is Palestinian, born and raised in Kuwait.