Tehmina Khan is a daughter of Indian immigrant scientists who has spent her adult life writing, teaching, resisting, and mothering. She has taught science to preschoolers, citizenship to octogenarians, and poetry translation to elementary school students; she currently teaches College Writing at UC Berkeley and Poetry for the People at City College of San Francisco, where she defends everyone's right to a quality education. Her work has been published in Poets11, Written Here, OccuPoetry, CCSF Forum Magazine, Civil Liberties United, The City is Already Speaking, Essential Truths, and Muslim American Writers at Home. She lives, writes, rides her bicycle, and loves on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land, commonly known as San Francisco.