Nava EtShalom

Nava EtShalom is a white Jewish femme in West Philly. She's a poet, editor, and educator, making art in crip time. She's currently working on a collection called VISITOR, about illness and disability and rest and rage. In her writing and political work, she unpicks settler-colonialism from her position as a multiple occupier. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Believer, and other journals. She's the author of the chapbook Fortunately (Button Poetry 2020) and the forthcoming collection The Knives We Need (Carnegie Mellon 2021).