Author Description

The International Human Rights Art Festival’s literary magazine, IHRAF Publishes, was created with a simple goal: to celebrate and uplift up-and-coming authors from all over the world whose writing centers on social justice and activist themes. Since 2019, we’ve had the pleasure of publishing poems, short stories, essays, and other forms of writing from authors in every continent (save Antarctica) and over ninety countries. This anthology contains the best work from our first three years. In it, you will read about female perseverance through insurmountable odds, musings on masculinity and gender, outcries against interpersonal prejudice and systemic racism, and elegies for people whose lives were taken unjustly through conflict and war. Each of the authors in this anthology contend with their identities in the context of their environments, providing readers with their unique perspectives on issues of human rights.