Sarah Ahmad

Short haired woman with dark red dress standing in front of a cherry blossom tree
Courtesy of the poet

Sarah Ahmad was born in Delhi and grew up across the Indian subcontinent. She has been a graduate student in the women’s history and writing programs at Sarah Lawrence College, taught in the CUNY Start program, and was the 2018–19 Editorial Fellow at Poets & Writers. She is assistant editor at Guernica (poetry) and Conjunctions, a reader at Poetry, and a PhD student in literature at the UMass–Amherst where she works on feminist-queer architextures in contemporary queer-diasporic literature, and writes in-between poem-prose beings.