Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a queer Arab poet living in Tio’tia:ke, unceded Kanien’kehá:ka
territory. Their work has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology, GUTS, Carte
Blanche, the Shade Journal, The New Quarterly, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. They
were longlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2019. You can find them on Instagram and Twitter
@theonlyelitareq. Their book knot body was published by Metatron Press in September 2020. The Good Arabs is their second poetry collection.