The Innocents
Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj (she/her) is a poet anthropologist (PhD, Cambridge) who has called both SE Asia and the Middle East home since leaving New York (where she still lives via poetry zooms). Author of Where are you From? Middle Class Migrants in the Modern World (University of California Press, 2000), ‘The Journey of a Bitter Gourd’ in Foodprints, A Collective Food Memoir (2020) her poetry has been published in anthologies and zines. A recovering academic, she is actively working on her book group addiction. She loves to interrupt her walks by taking photographs, cook in exchange for meaningful conversation, and enjoys experiments with genre and form.
The Marbled Sigh 