El Bechelany-Lynch, Eli Tareq

Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a writer living in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). Their work has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology, The New Quarterly, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. They were longlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2019. Their book, knot body (2020), published by Metatron Press, was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia First Book Award, and their second book, The Good Arabs, was published by Metonymy Press in September 2021. They are an editor at smoke and mold and the non-fiction editor at The Puritan