Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a queer, mixed Arab (white/ Arab) disabled writer living in Tio’tia:ke. Their book knot body (2020), published by Metatron Press, was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia First Book Award, and their second book, The Good Arabs (2021), published by Metonymy Press, received the honorable mention for the Arab American Book Award for Poetry. With co-editor Samia Marshy, they are editing El Ghourabaa, an anthology of weird and experimental queer and trans writing by Arab and Arabophone writers.