Patriarchy Rhymes
photo by Yasser Alaa Mobarak
by Johnna Schmidt
J.M. Schmidt writes poetry, short fiction, and plays, and lives in the Washington D.C. area. Their work has appeared in the Beltway Quarterly Review, On the Issues, The Rush, the Little Patuxent Review, and is included in Dear Robot: An Anthology of Epistolary Science Fiction.They hold an MFA in fiction from University of Maryland, College Park.
Yasser Alaa Mobarak (b. 1993) is a multi-award-winning photographer represented by ZUMA Press from Alexandria, Egypt. He is a Visiting Instructor at the Delhi College of Photography in India and a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society in Great Britain. Yasser has received international recognition for his images from esteemed competitions, including Travel Photographer of the Year Award, National Geographic
Award, Sony World Photography Awards, the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, the Sarajevo Photography Festival, the International Photo Awards, Egypt Press Photo, Paris Photo Prize and the Royal Photographic Society.
