Ayesha Raees (عائشہ رئیس) is a poet and artist identifying as a hybrid creating hybrid poetry through hybrid forms. Her work strongly revolves around issues of belonging and dislocation, G/god and spirituality, and beauty::cruelty while possessing a strong agency for decolonial, anti-violence, and anti-erasure practices.  She edits poetry at The Margins and has been endorsed by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Kundiman, UNESCO, and others. Her first book, Coining a Wishing Tower, won the Broken River Prize and was published by Radix in 2024. She is based in New York City and Lahore, Pakistan (and many other unsettled spaces).