Bassam Sidiki is a Doctoral Candidate in English at the University of Michigan and the Nonfiction Editor at Michigan Quarterly Review. His creative work, reviews, and public-facing scholarship have appeared in Papercuts, Jaggery, The Missing Slate, the Iowa Review (online), Synapsis, and the 2018 Anthology of the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, judged by Mark Doty.