Nilufar Karimi is a poet, scholar, translator and educator. Her work thinks through the intersections of displacement, translation, ecocriticism, and illness and disability. She is the author of Nuclear Deal (Noemi Press, 2021) and Notes on Digging (Belladonna*Collaborative, 2022). Her publications have appeared in World Literature Today, Poetry magazine, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop: The Margins, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Literature and Cultural Studies on Kumeyaay territory at the University of California, San Diego, where she is thinking through extraction, human and nonhuman bodies under empire, and histories of time travel.