Layla Azmi Goushey holds a Ph.D. in Adult Education: Teaching and Learning Processes and she is Professor of English at St. Louis Community College in St. Louis, Missouri. She is an assistant editor for Sukoon Magazine, an Arab-themed art and literature journal. Her poetry and prose have been published in several literary journals. She has recently published two essays: “The Jordanian Kids” in the June 2019 St. Louis Anthology and “Profile of a Citizen: Generations Then and Now” in the March 2020 anthology, Beyond Memory: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Creative Nonfiction.