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Samiya Bashir is one of the fiercest, boldest and most outspoken poets of our time. Read her and weep, read and her and be moved, read her and you will have found a new friend.
—Shay Youngblood—
Samiya Bashir is the author of Gospel, finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the 2009 Lambda Literary Award, and Where the Apple
Falls, a Poetry Foundation bestseller and finalist for the 2005 Lambda Literary Award. Bashir is 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. She has also published three chapbook poetry collections: Wearing Shorts on the First Day of Spring, American Visa and Teasing Crow.
Her awards include grants from the Astraea Foundation, the National Association of Pen Women, the University of California, and fellowships and residencies at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, University of Michigan, Soul Mountain Writers Colony, The Austin Project, Alma de Mujer, James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts, and Cave Canem. Bashir is a founding organizer of Fire & Ink, a writer’s festival for LGBT writers of African descent.
Bashir’s work has been featured in numerous publications including: Ms., Seventeen, Essence, Vibe, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Callaloo, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Contemporary American Women Poets, Other Countries: Voices Rising, Reverie, Carry the Word, Obsidian III, CaKe #3, Cave Canem #7, Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint, Best Lesbian Erotica 03, Black Issues Book Review, Curve, XXL, Lambda Book Report, ColorLines, and The American Journal of Public Health.
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Samiya Bashir is owner and principal consultant of Lead Time Consulting, specializing in communications for non-profits and arts organizations.
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