A.D. Lauren-Abunassar is an Arab-American writer who resides in Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Moth, Zone 3, Cincinnati Review, Diode, Comstock Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She was a 2019 Frost Chapbook Prize semi-finalist, a 2019 Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize finalist, and was a nominee for the 2018 Best New Poets Anthology. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.