Samiya Bashir
Samiya Bashir is the author of Gospel and Where the Apple Falls, a finalist for the 2005 Lambda Literary Award. Bashir is editor of Best Black Women’s Erotica 2, and co-editor of Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art. She has published three chapbook poetry collections: Teasing Crow, Wearing Shorts on the First Day of Spring, and American Visa. Bashir is a founding organizer of Fire & Ink, a writers festival for LGBT writers of African descent, and is an alumni fellow of Cave Canem. She has recently served as Writer in Residence at Soul Mountain, as James Cody Scholar for the James Dick Foundation for the Arts, and as Artist in Residence with The Austin Project. Her poetry, stories, articles, essays and editorial work have been widely published. Find out more at samiyabashir.com.
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