Sherah Bloor is a South African poet and scholar and a doctoral candidate at Harvard University. She is coeditor and co-translator, with Tayseer Abu Odeh, of You Must Live: New Poems from Palestine. She is editor-in-chief of the literary and arts magazine, Peripheries: A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound, and her poems and translations have appeared in Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Lana Turner, and the New York Review of Books, among others.