Key K. Bird is a multiracial Syrian and Mvskoke writer whose fiction and essays have been published in The Rumpus, Mizna, Diagram, and elsewhere. The recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, they have also won awards and honors for her fiction from Willow Springs, Fourteen Hills, and The Cincinnati Review, among others. Key is grateful to have been an artist in residence at various arts networks, including Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Arts, and the Edward Albee Foundation, and for support from McCormack Writing Center and the Wesleyan Writers Conference.

For fifteen years, Key edited and ran Aforementioned Productions, where they were Editor-in-Chief of the literary journal apt. They have also been an editor at Agni and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Key holds a PhD in Creative Writing and is currently at work on a novel about surveillance and other types of state violence.

This is all a footnote to a larger message: Arms embargo now. Ceasefire now. End the occupation.

You probably noticed two different pronouns in the paragraph above. Please use both to refer to Key. They feel most comfortable with plurality.

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