Leah Mensch is an Iraqi-American writer based in Tucson, Arizona, where they’re working on a book length archival project about the late poet Kate Braverman, radical ancestries, and non-western measures of record keeping. You can find their published or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Adroit, Guernica, and The North American Review, where they were a finalist for the 2023 Terry Tempest Williams Nonfiction Prize.