✧ Sarah Yanni is a Mexican-Egyptian writer + editor in Los Angeles ✧ She is the author of Hard Crush (Wonder Press, 2024) and ternura / tenderness (Bottlecap Press, 2019) ✧ A Best of the Net nominee, her work can be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Pleaides, Mizna, Nat Brut, Wildness, Altadena Poetry Review + elsewhere ✧ She has received support from the LA Department of Cultural Affairs, Tin House, Community of Writers, Center for Cultural Innovation + The REEF, and has been recognized as a contest Finalist by BOMB Magazine, Kelsey Street Press, Hayden’s Ferry Review, + Letras Latinas, among others ✧ She has presented both creative / critical work at programs and conferences with The Brooklyn Rail, Poetic Research Bureau, HASTAC, Cultural Studies Association, UC Davis, CalArts, the Philosophical Research Society, dublab, + the Circa Queer Histories Festival ✧ She holds an MFA from CalArts ✧