Bobuq Sayed is a cultural worker based between Berlin and Miami. They are the author of A Brief History of Australian Terror, a chapbook of essays forthcoming from Common Room Editions in 2024. They were a 2022–23 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, and they coedited an anthology called Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender-Diverse Australia (Allen and Unwin). Bobuq holds an MFA from the University of Miami’s creative writing program, where they were a James A. Michener Fellow, a Dean’s Award recipient, and the winner of the Irene Pines Award.