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| Samiya Bashir, poet, writer, editor |
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Bashir, Samiya
Ann Arbor, Michigan - 48107
United States |
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Samiya Bashir is the author of Gospel, a 2009 Lambda Literary Award finalist, and Where the Apple Falls, a Poetry Foundation bestseller and finalist for the 2005 Lambda Literary Award. She is also editor of Black Women’s Erotica 2 and co-editor, with Tony Medina and Quraysh Ali Lansana, of Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art. Her poetry, stories, articles, essays and editorial work have been featured in numerous publications including: Ms. Magazine, Essence, Curve, ColorLines, Callaloo, Obsidian III, Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint, and more. Bashir has been honored with awards, fellowships, grants, and residencies from a variety of organizations, is an alumni fellow with Cave Canem and a founding organizer of Fire & Ink, a writer’s festival for LGBT writers of African descent. Find out more at http://www.samiyabashir.com.
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