Sumaya Barud is a black sheep. She writes to put to paper the unfinished conversations she isn’t able to have with some of the people in her life. Not your quintessential wordy writer, she expresses in a way that is true to her cluttered train of thoughts. When she isn’t writing, Sumaya is either waiting in the line of Fitzroy’s Gelato Messina, in the bathroom managing her afro into twists or having random conversations with local strangers about life lessons. 

Sumaya contributed to Issue 01: TIME in 2020.