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Rayya Liebich is a poet and memoirist of Lebanese and Polish descent.

She is the author of the award-winning chapbook Tell Me Everything (Ontario Poetry Society), the poetry collection Min Hayati (Inanna Publications), and a hybrid memoir entitled Milk Teeth (forthcoming with Pownal Street Press).

The last two years, she has channelled her rage and grief over the horrors in Palestine into three chapbooks: Khalas/Enough (Gridlock Lit), Word Games for Times of Genocide (Pinhole Poetry) and Litany of Words I Cannot Read (Publication Studio Guelph). She believes in the power of words to change minds and hearts, and in the responsibility of artists to be truth-tellers.

Winner of The International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir and Briarpatch Magazine’s Writing in the Margins Contest, recent publications include a visual poem in Protean Magazine, the featured essay in Geist Number 128 (longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize), a lyric essay  in The Rumpus, and a commissioned piece for Rest/Unrest issue 48.3 of Room Magazine.