Mahru Elahi (she/they/او) is an Iranian American femme whose professional work supports growing cultures of inquiry—centered around collectivism, transformation and equity—within public K-12 education. Their writing and community work consider the SWANA—Southwest Asian North African—diaspora and its resistance against systems of domination. They have received support from Community of Writers, Lambda Literary, Hedgebrook, Tin House, VONA and Antioch University, Los Angeles. Their poetry and prose is published or forthcoming in Sinister Wisdom, Black Warrior Review, Foglifter, Multiplicity and Fireweed, among others.
