Listen to ​​our conversation with Hera Naguib about stillness in poetry, becoming comfortable with not belonging, depending on yourself, connecting to your landscape, and staying close to your art in Episode 04 of The Being Body Podcast, “Concerns of the Imagination”. Hera Naguib is a Pakistani writer who was raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Toronto, Canada. She earned her M.Litt. in Literature in English from Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan and an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, New York. Hera holds a fellowship, an award, and recognition from the Fulbright Scholarship Program, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, and The American Academy of Poets. She is a PhD candidate in English at Florida State University where she studies poetry, teaches literature, creative writing, and composition. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in New England Review, The Common, Poets.org, World Literature Today, DAWN, The News on Sunday, among others. She can be found at www.heranaguib.com or @HeraNaguib on Twitter. Hera lives between Tallahassee and Lahore.