Announcing our Fresh Pages Editor!

Mahta Riazi is our 2022 Fresh Pages Guest Editor! Mahta will be curating a special section of our next issue in collaboration with our editor-in-chief, Greg Santos.

Mahta Riazi is a poet, community worker, and educator living in Tio’tia:ke (Montréal). She has previously worked with QWF as a facilitator for the Writers in the Community program. She is inspired by and indebted to the poetry of Kristin Chang, Forough Farokhzaad, Sayeh, Hieu Minh Nguyen, George Abraham, and Joshua Bennett, among others. You can find Mahta's poetry in inQluded magazine, Voicemail Poems, Yolk literary magazine, Bahr magazine, and Brickplight. Her chapbook Parastoo was published in June 2022 by Cactus Press.

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