Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi is a Black mother who spends time with forests and waters on unceded lands of the T’Sou-ke First Nation. Her work strives to instigate action in service to world-building, social change, and collaboration. Her poems live in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Poetry Pause, wildness, Recenter Press, MAYDAY, Torch, and other portals. Her first full-length poetry collection, DREAMS FOR EARTH, arrived from Deep Vellum last year.

Travel with her online at fatimaayanmalikahirsi.com or @‌fatimawritingdoula.