Threa Almontaser (’19) is the critically acclaimed author of the National Book Award honored debut poetry collection, The Wild Fox of Yemen. Her work has been supported by National Endowment for The Arts, the Fulbright Program, and the Rosati Writer Program at Duke. She holds a Master of Fine Arts and a TESOL certification from North Carolina State University. When not storytelling or coming up with conspiracy theories, she attends comic conventions, trains her koi to do tricks, and keeps an eye out for pretty rocks. She believes writing should not only entertain, but provoke, and can be found most likely sitting hunched over her desk thinking obsessively about the placement of commas.