Fatimah Asghar

Fatimah Asghar is a Pakistani-Kashmiri-American poet and screenwriter. Co-creator and writer for the Emmy-nominated webseries Brown Girls, her work has appeared in POETRY Magazine, Gulf Coast, BuzzFeed Reader, The Margins, The Offing, Academy of American Poets, and other publications.

Asghar is a member of the Dark Noise Collective[1] and a Kundiman Fellow.[2] She received the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation in 2017,[3] and has been featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.[4]

Works

  • If They Come for Us (One World/Random House, 2018)
  • After (YesYes Books, 2015)

References

  1. ↑ "Dark Noise: Fatimah Asghar, Franny Choi, Nate Marshall, Aaron Samuels, Danez Smith & Jamila Woods". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-05-27. Retrieved 2018-05-27.
  2. ↑ "Fellows". Kundiman. Retrieved 2018-05-27.
  3. ↑ "Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-05-26. Retrieved 2018-05-27.
  4. ↑ "30 Under 30 2018: Hollywood & Entertainment". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-05-27.



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