Daad Sharfi is a poet and immigrant-rights advocate from Chicago, by way of Sudan. She is an alumna of Winter Tangerine, Cave Canem, Brooklyn Poets and the DreamYard Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium. Her work appears and is forthcoming in 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Sawti, PANK, Voicemail Poems, WHEN WE EXHALE: An Anthology of Black Women Rooted in Ancestral Medicine, and elsewhere. Currently, she lives in Brooklyn and is pursuing her JD at NYU Law, where you’ll often find her daydreaming in class about the endless possibilities of language.