I see this collection as the antithesis of erasure. Sleeping in the Courtyard compiles creative work by contemporary Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora.
Holly Mason Badra
Holly Mason Badra is a Kurdish American writer. She is currently the associate director of Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University. Her poetry, essays, reviews, and interviews appear in Meridian, The Arkansas International, The Rumpus, CALYX, Circumference, Asymptote, Oxford Bibliographies, and elsewhere. She is the curator-editor of Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora (University of Arkansas Press, 2025).