donia salem harhoor (they/she) is an egyptian-american bibliophile. Executive Director of The Outlet Dance Project, founder of the Duniya Collective, they are an alumna of Community of  Writers, Open Mouth Poetry Retreat, Urban Bush Women's Summer Leadership Institute, and several Winter Tangerine Review Workshops. In 2019 they were Grounds For  Sculpture’s inaugural Performing Artist in Residence.  A 2021 finalist for Palette Poetry’s Sappho Prize, they are one of Swim Pony’s TrailOff Project authors. Their poetry has also appeared in Anomaly and Sukoon magazines and is forthcoming in an anthology of SWANA love poems (We Call to the Eye & the Night, Persea Books, Fall 2022). donia's was honored to have poems in I Want Sky, a notebook in honor of Sara Hegazy presented by Mizna and AAWA.

donia is a principal dancer and choreographer with Sakshi Productions and has been a student of acclaimed Odissi Guru, Durga Charan Ranbir for the past 19 years. She works closely with the virtuosic Rahul Acharya. Performances include The Sheen Center, Princeton University, The Painted Bride, the 14th Street Y, and Alvin Ailey. They were a founding member of Kalamandir Dance Company and are a member of the Brown Girl in the Ring Collective. An apprentice of Empress Karen Rose of Sacred Vibes Apothecary, harhoor has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College.