Description: Layla Al-Bedawi, writer, poet, bookbinder, and co-founder of FuenteCo. Author of speculative and realist fiction published in Bayou Magazine, Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Liminal Stories, Crab Fat Magazine, and elsewhere.
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Layla Al-Bedawi is a writer of fiction, poetry, and hybrid strangelings, a language and writing instructor, community builder, occasional podcaster, and bookbinder (among other things). English is her third language, but she's been dreaming in it for years. Born in Germany to Kurdish and Ukrainian parents, she moved to the US in 2006 and currently lives in the Houston, TX area. She is one of the founders of Fuente Collective , an organization that facilitates experimentation, collaboration, and hybridity in