Tarik Dobbs is an Arab American queer writer & text artist(?) born in Dearborn, Michigan, on stolen land of the Chippewa, Ottawa, & Potawatomi people. Dobbs’s poems appear in American Poetry Review, Best of the Net, & Poetry Magazine. Dobbs is Assistant Editor of Great River Review and helps out at Poetry.onl. Dobbs’s poetry chapbook, Dancing on the Tarmac, was selected by G. Calvocoressi (Yemassee, 2021).