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Nada Samih-Rotondo is a multi-genre Palestinian American writer, educator, and mother. A graduate of Rhode Island College, she earned degrees in English and Education and an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University. When she is not befriending trees or attuning to hidden stories, she is leading transformational educational experiences and addressing the social-emotional needs of historically underserved and multilingual youth. Her writing has appeared in Masters Review, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, and Squat Birth Journal. She lives in Providence with her husband and three children and works as the manager of education at Brown University’s Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice. All Water Has Perfect Memory, her first bo ...more

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“On the collective level, as more people do their own healing work, expand their capacity for connection, and trade individualism for interdependence, we will have a much greater capacity to change the oppressive systems that keep all of us, and especially the most marginalized, from being free.”
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