Yanara Friedland is a German-American writer, translator and teacher. Embraces the carrion was written while walking along several border regions in Europe, and in part published as a digital chapbook from Essay Press. Her first book Uncountry: A Mythology was the 2015 winner of the Noemi Fiction Prize. She is the recipient of a DAAD and an Arizona Commission of the Arts research grant in support of a collection of essays Groundswell written collaboratively in the German-Polish and US-Mexican borderlands.