BAHAR ORANG is the author of Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her poems have appeared in Protean, Midnight Sun, Canthius, Room, The Seventh Wave, the Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, and elsewhere. She was the winner of the 2022 Malahat Review Open Season Award for Creative Nonfiction, and her work is forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry. She lives and works as a psychiatrist in Toronto.