poems by LAMEES AL ETHARI
October 2018
32 pp., thread bound, 5.75"x 7.5"
ISBN # 978-1-928066-34-7
cover of St. Armand Canal paper
flyleaf of Japanese Chitose
original artwork by Lamees Al Ethari

Lamees Al Ethari is an Iraqi writer and artist who immigrated to Canada in 2008. She holds a PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Waterloo, where she has been teaching academic and creative writing since 2015. Her research focuses on Iraqi North American women’s life narratives of trauma and migration. Her memoir on the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Waiting for the Rain, is due for publication in 2019.