Holly Mason Badra is the curator/editor of Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora.

She received her MFA in Poetry from George Mason University in 2017, where she served as the blog editor for So to Speak: An Intersectional Feminist Journal of Language and Art. Her poems, prose, interviews, and reviews have appeared in various journals, such as: Meridian, Asymptote, The Arkansas International, The Northern Virginia Review, The Adroit Journal, The Rumpus, SWWIM Everyday, Circumference Magazine, Rabbit Catastrophe Review, Foothill Poetry Journal, The University of Arizona Poetry Center Blog, Bourgeon Online, Broad Strokes: The National Museum of Women in the Arts Blog, Outlook Springs, Entropy, CALYX, and elsewhere. She received a Bethesda Urban Partnership Poetry Prize selected by E. Ethelbert Miller.

She has participated in various literary events such as: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, RAWIFest , and OutWrite. She has extensive experience as an educator, teaching elementary, middle, high school, and college English, Creative Writing, Humanities, Literature, and Women and Gender Studies courses.

Holly currently lives in Northern Virginia, working as the Associate Director of Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University. She also reads for Poetry Daily.