Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu (Amharic: ይርጋለም ፍስሃ መብራቱ; born 1981) is an Eritrean poet, writer and journalist.

[3][4] She was accused of having ties to foreign media, other charges included allegedly plotting to assassinate the President and belittling politicians.

[6][7] Other journalists who received similar mistreatment include: Bereket Misghina, Basilios Zemo, and Meles Negusse Kiflu.

[8] The circumstances of her imprisonment received significant international media attention, in the context of a debate on human rights in Eritrea.

[15] According to the publisher, the poems fall into two categories: "calm, cowardice and modesty and courage" on the one hand and "the high point of tension, the battlefield of vice and decency, violence and justice, the destruction and continuity of generations" on the other, persecution and death.