Bobuq Sayed is an Afghan cultural worker who divides their time between Berlin and Miami. They were a Steinbeck fellow at San José State University in 2022-2023 and their writing has received support from Tin House, Kundiman, and the Lambda LiteraryEmerging Writers Retreat. Bobuq is the author of A Brief History of Australian Terror, a chapbook forthcoming from Common Room Editions in 2024, and the co-editor of Nothing to Hide: Voices from Trans and Gender Diverse Australia (Allen and Unwin).