donia salem harhoor (they/she) is a disabled, diasporic egyptian anthophile and caregiver who works with writing, movement, herbalism, site-specific performance, and film. 

Executive Director of The Outlet Dance Project, founder of the Duniya Collective, and Co-artistic Director of Sakshi Productions, they currently serve as chair for the Odissi Alliance of North America (OANA), as a board member of the Bartol Foundation, and on New Jersey Theater Alliance’s Creating Change Committee. 

donia’s writing has received support from Periplus, RAWI, Lambda Literary, Roots.Wounds.Words., Tin House, Open Mouth Poetry, Swim Pony, and others. Their MFA in Interdisciplinary art is from Goddard College. 

Their work often explores practices of care and dedication along with the blessings and curses of distance from land, community, and beloveds, of what the weight of legacy and responsibility feel like. They know it is a sacred and essential duty of every single one of us to do everything in our personal and collective power every single day to refuse the genocides being perpetrated right now.