Dana  Alsamsam

Dana Alsamsam, a first-generation Syrian-American from Chicago, is currently an arts fundraiser in Boston. A Lambda Literary fellow, she received her MFA in poetry from Emerson College, where she was the editor-in-chief of Redivider and senior editorial assistant at Ploughshares. Her poems are published or forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review, North American Review, Poetry Daily, BOOTH, The Journal, The Common, and others.