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Baba’s and Mizna co-present the fourth reading of their quarterly series featuring the Mizna Writing Collective and their invited guests. This time, we’ll hear from Yara Omer, Randall J. Tyrone, and Michelle Zamanian.

Come early for a holiday bazaar featuring Mizna merch, Baba’s goods, and other items from local makers!

Join us on December 5, 2025 at Baba’s Hummus House // 5pm holiday bazaar, 7pm reading

This reading will have ASL interpreting.

ABOUT THE READERS

Yara Omer is an educator and loves reading and writing novels. She writes in Arabic and English and has been published in several anthologies and journals such as Saint Paul Almanac, Mizna, Fourth River, and Cracked Walnut, and with MELSA (Metropolitan Library Service Agency). She participated in the Community Editor program with Saint Paul Almanac, and is currently serving on its board. She edited for Cracked Walnut and served as a judge for the Minnesota Author Project and for the Minnesota Book Awards. Yara enjoys nature, astronomy, art, and literature.

Randall J. Tyrone holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming. His poems have appeared in Electric Literature’s Okey-Panky, Oversound, Indiana Review, Southern Indiana Review, and with Nomadic Press and forthcoming in Gulf Coast. He has been anthologized in Bodies Built For A Game by Prairie Schooner. He received a scholarship to attend the Tin House Summer Workshop and was awarded the Bentley-Buckman Poetry Fellowship to attend the Writer’s Week at the Idyllwild Arts Foundation. His collection City of Dis was released in fall 2025 by Texas Review Press. Currently, he leads Writers Who Aren’t Writing, a collective where Houston-area writers and artists gather to workshop their writing, exchange ideas, and find community support. He’s very excited for you.

Michelle Zamanian is an Iranian American writer living in Minneapolis. She holds an MFA in creative writing and was an editor at The Rumpus for six years, creating and managing the We Are More column that published SWANA writers. She is currently working on a creative nonfiction project that focuses on weaving together pop culture and personal stories.