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Anes Ahmed

Anes Ahmed is a first generation Egyptian-American poet, playwright, spoken word artist, and activist based in New York City. His work blends together traditional Arabic storytelling and songs with contemporary poetic forms to examine the lives and narratives of Arab Americans. His poems have been featured in publications such as Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine, Stuck in the Library Magazine, PEN America, and the anthology DREAMing Out Loud. As well, he has performed spoken word poetry at the PEN World Voices Festival, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The Poet's Passage, among many other areas throughout the United States and abroad. Currently, Anes is an undergraduate majoring in Creative Writing and Literature at the College of Staten Island.

Zohra Saed

Zohra Saed is the co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature (University of Arkansas Press), editor of Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, and Notebooks from Turkestan (Lost & Found, The CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative); and Woman. Hand/Pen. (Belladonna Chaplet). Her essays on the Central Asian diaspora have appeared in Eating Asian America (NYU Press) and The Asian American Literary Review. She co-founded UpSet Press, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit indie press, with poet Robert Booras. She holds a PhD In American Literature from The CUNY Grad Center, and MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College.