Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi is a 19-year-old writer and poet from Gaza, currently a second-year English Literature student at the Islamic University of Gaza. As an emerging literary voice, she is dedicated to amplifying Gaza’s stories through her writing. She contributes to We Are Not Numbers (WANN), and her work has appeared in outlets including the Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, the Palestine Chronicle, the Markaz Review, Middle East Monitor, Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, the Massachusetts Review, Baladi Magazine, the Institute for Palestine Studies, Prism, and The New Arab. Her poetry has also been published by the Gaza Poets Society.