Key K. Bird is a multiracial Syrian and Mvskoke writer whose fiction and essays have been published in The Rumpus, Mizna, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. The recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts in 2024, they have also won awards and honors for her fiction from Willow Springs, Fourteen Hills, and The Cincinnati Review, among others. Key has participated in residencies at the Tin House Summer Workshop and the Wesleyan Writers Conference, and is a member of RAWI (The Radius of Arab American Writers). They are currently at work on a novel about 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.
Image credit: RWB. Sculpture by Okuda San Miguel.