Samiya Bashir

Samiya Bashir is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Field Theories (Nightboat, 2017), winner of the 2018 Oregon Book Awards Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. Her fourth book, I Hope this Helps, is forthcoming in Spring 2025 from Nightboat Books. Samiya’s honors include the Rome Prize in Literature, the Pushcart Prize, Oregon’s Arts & Culture Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature. She currently serves as the June Jordan Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and lives in Harlem.