Bana Beydoun is a Lebanese poet and writer, her first poetry book “The guardian of illusion” came out in 2013;  followed by the short story “Pizza delivery” in Beirut Noir (2015). Since then her poems were published in renowned international literary magazines, the last of which being the Dutch magazine DW B ( 2019)  and  Through the ash, new leaves (2022), a poetry anthology published by the American literary magazine CUTTHROAT, A Journal of the Arts.