Fatimah Asghar

Poet, screenwriter, 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. 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.

Asghar is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman Fellow. In 2017, they were a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and listed on Forbes’s 30 under 30 list.