Contributors

Ali Asadollahi, an award-winning Iranian poet, is the author of six Persian poetry books. Asadollahi is a permanent member and the former secretary of the Iranian Writers' Association (founded in 1968). His poems and translations are published/forthcoming in Bellingham Review, Consequence, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, Guernica Editions, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Los Angeles Review, and others.

Stefania Baresic is an Italian-born psychotherapist living in Toronto, Canada. She operates a private practice, supporting adults struggling with the intersecting effects of developmental, multigenerational, historical, and social trauma. In her work, she integrates relational psychodynamic psychotherapy with the principles of a body-focused approach. She is a graduate of the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy in Toronto, a rigorous six-year training program in psychodynamic psychotherapy. In adjunct to her practice, she also works at the Centre as a faculty assistant and as a graduate fellow, leading seminars for first- and second-year students in the Foundation Phase of the program.

Katie Burner, LICSW, LCSW-C, has been a psychotherapist for more than a decade, and currently maintains a private practice that serves the Washington, DC, region. She is a member of the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, from which she graduated in 2023.

Karim G. Dajani, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. He specializes in working with issues related to cultural dislocation and displacement. His research and writing include publications on the links between cultural systems and the unconscious of individuals and groups. He sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. His recent works include a special issue dedicated to the social unconscious, and an upcoming chapter on race and ethnicity in contemporary psychoanalytic theories and praxis that wi