Bazeed is a multi–award winning Egyptian immigrant, poet, playwright, performance artist, stage actor, editor, curator, and cook, living in Brooklyn. An alliteration-leaning writer of prose, poetry, plays, and pantry lists, their work across genres has been published in print and online, and their plays performed in festivals on both sides of the Atlantic. Their first play, peace camp org, an autobiographical queer anti-Zionist musical(ish) comedy about summer camp, is published by Oberon Books, UK, and won them the Andrew & Eleanor McGlinchee Prize in 2018; the Fresh Fruit Festival’s Spirit Award in 2019; and the Dramatists Guild’s Lanford Wilson Award for Creative Promise in 2021. Their work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Sundance Institute, the Arab American National Museum, Asian American Writers Workshop, the Center for Fiction, Lambda Literary, Queer Art Mentorship, and Trans Lab, among others. They are currently at work on a new play commission, Sisters at Sunrise, and on their first novel, The Boy Made of Air. To procrastinate from facing the blank page, Mariam curates and runs an occasional world-music salon and open mic in Brooklyn, and is a slow student of Arabic music.