You Are a Beautiful Fig Tree

Alina Amer

Rima Rantisi is an essayist, lecturer at the American University of Beirut, and the founding editor of Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal. Her essays can be found in the New England Review, Literary Hub, Slag Glass City, Rusted Radishes, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has received literary fellowships from Art Omi, Headlands Center for the Arts, Monson Arts, and Hedgebrook. She is at work on a collection of essays on writing and the liminal spaces residing at the junctions of motherhood/land, fractured histories, and writing.