Author name: Jaye Nasir

Jaye Nasir is a cross-genre writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has recently appeared in Strange Horizons, The Night Heron Barks, and Passport of Witness, a handcrafted anthology of Palestinian voices created to raise funds for Gaza. Her first chapbook, Full of Eyes Within, is available from The Fabulist, and her poetry is featured in the video game Life is Strange: Double Exposure. Her work is forthcoming in the anthology Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025) and elsewhere.

The Story of My Wound

Jaye Nasir

And every time somebody dies in Gaza / it starts to bleed a little more / so as you can imagine I can’t / keep a shirt clean.

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