Aliah Lavonne Jahan-Tigh is an Iranian American author, teacher, artist, and their work studies both infrastructures of power and ecological connection. The author of Weren’t We Natural Swimmers, a 2022 chapbook with Tram Editions, their poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, Mizna, Guernica, The Texas Review, Matter Monthly, The Rupture, and others. They have recent work in Split This Rock’s Poem of the Week and Gulf Coast Journal.  Jahan-Tigh has contributed work for a Gulf Coast Journal and Texas Contemporary ekphrastic collaboration, and their work has also been supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop, The Brooklyn Rail, and others. Jahan-Tigh lives and works in Houston, Texas. You can find them on social media @ALoveTigh.