Lamees A Ethari

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Lamees Al Ethari holds a Ph.D. from the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, where she has been teaching creative and academic writing and literature since 2015. She is in the process of completing a an autoethnographic monograph titled, Patterns of Telling: Women’s Autobiography in the Diaspora, which is a critical exploration of women’s life narratives of displacement in the diaspora. Through her poetry collection, From the Wounded Banks of the Tigris (2018) and her memoir, Waiting for the Rain: An Iraqi Memoir (2019), she reflects on her experiences of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, the violent aftermath, and her migration from home. Her poems have appeared in About Place Journal, The New Quarterly, The Malpais Review, and the anthology Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here. She is also a consulting and nonfiction editor with The New Quarterly and a co-founder for The X Page: A Storytelling Workshop for Immigrant Women.