Ashna Ali is a Best-of-the-Net-nominated, queer, disabled, and diasporic poet raised in Italy and based in Brooklyn. They are the author of the forthcoming re-release, The Relativity of Living Well (Bone Bouquet, 2024), a meditation on COVID-19 and disability over time, and their Substack newsletter, Pain Baby. They hold a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center CUNY, and teach online workshops on disability poetics.