A descendent of Iranian and European lineages, Anisa is moved by (ancestral) prayer to engage with place-making, hold and metabolize grief/joy, and stretch across spatial and temporal thresholds. Shaped by their ever-unfolding relationship with tilted axes of queerness, neurodivergence, and liminality, they are enchanted by modes of embodied and speculative story-ing, some of which include: dance, textile art, and ceramics. Alongside their soma-poetic practices, they have spent several years as a ‘teacher’ and caretaker of young children, from whom they continue to learn (and un-learn) a great deal. They currently reside in the hills of Santa Ana, California with their dog, Miso, who reminds them of the importance of rest, playfulness, and simply being.

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