Villainy - Andrea Abi-Karam

*Of interest to performance studies, performance artists, arab american community, queer / trans community, gender studies, leftists, anarchists, abolitionists, scholars, activists, freaks, hedonists, rebels, revolutionaries*poems were written through the grief of post-Ghostship Fire and post-Muslim ban*Author's first book EXTRATRANSMISSION was a finalist for a Lamda Literary award in Transgender Poetry*Author participates in many abolitionist projects, including Books Through Bars NYC / Black & Pink NYC & SF Bay Area *Author curated the Segue Reading Series in October-November of 2019*Author co-found, taught, and mentored at Words of Resistance, a monthly radical queer open floor poetry night to fundraise for political prisoners' comissary funds, from 2012-2017*Author founded and directs POETICS OF TERROR, a workshop series *Author has previously been the Director of Publicity at Nightboat Books (2017-2019), and worked in Publicity & Communications, Events & Development for Timeless, Infinite Light (2016-2018) and Publicity & Communications and Social Media for Commune Editions (2014-2016)*Author holds an MFA in Poetry w/ Community Engagement Scholarship from Mills College and was the recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston full scholarship to Naropa's Summer Writing Program in 2018*Author is the current Communications & Development coordinator at Poetry Project