Ayesha Raees’s first book of poetry, Coining a Wishing Tower (Platypus Press, 2022), won the Broken River Prize judged by Kaveh Akbar. Raees serves as an Assistant Poetry Editor at AAWW's The Margins, and has received fellowships from Asian American Writers' Workshop, Brooklyn Poets, and Kundiman. From Lahore, Pakistan, Raees currently lives in New York City. loading