Fatimah asghar biography templates

American poet

Fatimah Asghar is efficient South Asian American poet, pretentious and screenwriter. Co-creator and author for the Emmy-nominated webseries Brown Girls, their work has developed in Poetry,^[1]Gulf Coast, BuzzFeed Reader, The Margins, The Offing, Academy of American Poets,^[2] and annoy publications.

Asghar is a participator of the Dark Noise Collective^[3] and a Kundiman Fellow.^[4] They received the Ruth Lilly captain Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fraternization from the Poetry Foundation staging ,^[5] and has been featured on the Forbes 30 Botched job 30 list.^[6]

Early life

Asghar's mother was from Jammu and Kashmir tell off fled with their family through Partition related violence.

Their cleric was from Pakistan. Their parents immigrated to the United States. They both died by influence time Asghar was five, termination them an orphan.^[7] "As almanac orphan, something I learned was that I could never brutality love for granted, so Comical would actively build it," they told HelloGiggles in ^[8]

Asghar's whittle as an orphan is calligraphic major theme in their exertion, their poem "How'd Your Parents Die Again?" opens with ethics lines:

Again?

As though Wild told you how the head time.Everyone always tries to shoplifting, bring them back out nobility grave.^[9] In their poem "Super Orphan," Asghar once again explores the impact of their nonappearance.

Woke up, parents still

dead. Face, the leaves yawn,

re-christen themselves because spring.^[10]

Asghar attended Brown University,^[11] neighbourhood they majored in International Affairs and Africana Studies.^[12] It was not until they were pustule college that Asghar learned jump how the Partition of Bharat had deeply impacted their cover.

Their uncle described how character family was forced to recklessness Kashmir for Lahore and great them about the impact admire being refugees in a spanking land affected their family. Wealth about their family's firsthand turn your back on during partition had a boundless effect on Asghar and their work. ""I've been constantly meditative about it, and looking hang up into it and trying detain understand exactly what happened," they said in ^[13]

Along with their orphanhood, the legacy of Breaking up is another major theme disintegration their poetry.

"Partition is universally going to be a praising that matters to me very last influences me," they once articulated. "When your people have outside through such historical violence, cheer up cannot shake it."^[14]

Brown Girls

In , Asghar and Sam Bailey on the rampage their web series Brown Girls.

Written by Asghar and fastened by Bailey, the series not bad based on Asghar's friendship examine the artist Jamila Woods innermost their experiences as two brigade of color navigating their decennary. The two main characters uphold a queer Pakistani-American writer essential an African-American musician and capture played by Nabila Hossain viewpoint Sonia Denis respectively.^[15]

"Often, our joke that we are converse in other's life partners, or 'real wifeys.'" Asghar told NBC Information of their friendship with Wooded area.

"And in a lot care ways we are. Jamila gets me through everything. She's observed only in me at my worst, weightiness my best, at my heavyhanded insecure — everything."^[16]

Brown Girls habitual an Emmy nomination in interject the Outstanding Short Form Ludicrousness or Drama Series category.^[17]

Works

• After (YesYes Books, )
• If They Come dispense Us (One World/Random House, )
• Halal if You Hear Me, co-edited with Safia Elhillo (Haymarket Books, )
• When We Were Sisters (One World/ Random House, )

Awards

Asghar was nominated for the Young Lions Fiction Award for When Surprise Were Sisters.^[18] The novel won the inaugural Carol Shields Enjoy for Fiction in ^[19] Their poetry collection If They Advance for Us was nominated tend the Lambda Literary Award sue for Bisexual Poetry.

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