Fatimah Asghar

Fatimah Asghar is a South Asian American poet 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 is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman Fellow. She 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.