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Poet, filmmaker, educator, and performer Fatimah Asghar is a South-Asian American Muslim writer. Asghar is the author of the poetry collection If They Come for Us (One World/Random House, 2018) and the chapbook After (Yes Yes Books, 2015). They are also the writer and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated Brown Girls, a web series that highlights friendships between women of color. They served as coproducer and writer on the “Time and Again” episode of Ms. Marvel and their work has been featured on news outlets such as PBS, NPR, Time, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, and others. In 2011, Asghar created a spoken word poetry group in Bosnia and Herzegovina called REFLEKS while serving a Fulbright fellowship, where they studied theater in post-genocidal countries.
Source: Poetry Foundation
Ladan Osman lives in Chicago and is the winner of the African Poetry Book Fund’s 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her manuscript The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Cave Canem Foundation, and the Michener Center for Writers. A 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Life in Poetry, Broadsided, Narrative Magazine, Prairie Schooner, and Vinyl Poetry.