Visiting Writers Reading Series: Fatimah Asghar

Fatimah Asghar is an American poet, director and screenwriter. Co-creator and writer for the Emmy-nominated webseries “Brown Girls,” their work has appeared in Poetry, Gulf Coast, BuzzFeed Reader, The Margins, The Offing, Academy of American Poets and other publications.

Asghar received the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation in 2017 and has been featured on the Forbes “30 Under 30” list.