Rayya Liebich (she/her) is an award-winning writer and educator of Lebanese and Polish descent. She is the author of three chapbooks (Tell Me Everything, Khalas/Enough and Litany of Words I Cannot Read) and the poetry collection Min Hayati (Inanna Publications). Passionate about writing as a tool for transformation and changing the discourse on grief, she believes in the power of words to change minds and hearts and in the responsibility of artists to be truth-tellers and to record poems as a testimony to history. She is currently channelling her rage over the war on Gaza into a collection of non-linear essays. www.rayyaliebich.com @rayliebich
I remember being told Onsi was a poor artist barely able to feed his family, and my mother, an admirer of his art and a lover of nature, bought all his paintings.