Zara Jamshed (they/them) is a queer, trans, disabled Pakistani and Indian American poet from New York City living in the East Bay. They are the winner of the Penrose Poetry Prize for LGBTQIA+ writers and have work published in The Arrow, Foglifter, Keppel Health Review, and others. Zara has had their work supported by Anaphora Arts, Asian American Writers Workshop, Kearny Street Workshop, Periplus Collective, Queer Ancestors Project, Still Here San Francisco, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Tin House, THEYFRIEND, The Writer’s Grotto and others. Their debut poetry collection Neither Created Nor Destroyed was a semifinalist for the Pamet River Prize, a finalist for the Stories Award for Poetry, and is available now with Game Over Books.

Social media: @zeejamz on IG