Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. She loves ruin porn, clam chowder, and the end of election season. Her books include a travel photography and poetry monograph (The Long Way Home, 2013), a collection of linked stories, poems, and photographs (The Lovers and the Leavers, 2015), and a memoir (Olive Witch, 2017). See more at olivewitch.com.
She was brave, coming to the station that day. It was still a time when people seen associating with the “traitors” could have had trouble from the KGB.