Threa Almontaser is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection, THE WILD FOX OF YEMEN (Graywolf Press, 2021) selected by Harryette Mullen for the 2020 Walt Whitman Award from The Academy of American Poets, and a finalist for the 2020 Tupelo Press Dorset Prize. She teaches English to immigrants and refugees in Raleigh and is a Fulbright candidate for the 2021 academic year. She is at work on her first novel.