Hold Your Breath

Rana Bitar is a Syrian American physician, poet, and writer. She earned her Master's in English and Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University.Her poetry appeared in The Deadly Writers Patrol journal, DoveTales, Earthen Lamp Journal, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Magnolia Review, El Portal, Pacific REVIEW, Black Coffee Review, The Phoenix, The Dewtrope, and The Charleston Anvil. Also, scheduled to appear in The International Human Rights Art Festival, The Beltway Quarterly, and Sextant Review.She is a contributor to Seeing Things: Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Robert Bensen. Oneonta and Treadwell NY: Woodland Arts Editions and Bright Hill Press & Literary Center, 2020. Her essay, The Sliding Door, was published in The Pharos, Winter 2020 issue. Forthcoming in Pink Panther Magazine is her essay, In The Alley.Her poetry chapbook, "A Loaf Of Bread," was published by "Unsolicited Press," January 8, 2019. "A Loaf Of Bread" was a finalist in the "Concrete Wolf Chapbook Competition" in 2017, and won an honorable mention in "The 2017 Louis Award" for poetry.She lives in upstate NY.