Zohra Saed
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| Born | Jalalabad, Afghanistan |
| Nationality | Afghan |
| Citizenship | Afghanistan |
| Education | MFA, Brooklyn College PhD, The CUNY Grad Center |
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Zohra Saed is a Brooklyn-based Afghan-American poet and editor and Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College.[1]
Early life and education
Saed is a first-generation New Yorker who grew up in Brooklyn. She was born in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Her parents traveled with her through the Middle East and found themselves trapped outside their home country when Afghanistan's Communist Coup.[2]
Saed has been a Fellow at the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean as well as the Schomburg Center for Black Culture.[3]
As a child, Saed wandered through Brooklyn neighborhoods with groups of cousins and friends, and she wrote stories and drew pictures, inspired by Uzbek and Afghan fairy tales, in the blank pages of her elementary school library's books.[4]
Career
Saed is an expert on American and Afghan-American literature diasporic identity, and food writing. She is the co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature (University of Arkansas Press) and editor of Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, and Notebooks from Turkestan (Lost & Found, The CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative).[5][6] She has also published about the Central Asian diaspora in Eating Asian America (NYU Press).[7] For her research on Langston Hughes, she was awarded a Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Digitization Fellowship in partnership with the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC).[8]
Saed co-founded UpSet Press with poet Robert Booras, whom she met while they were both pursuing their MFAs in poetry at Brooklyn College.[9] UpSet Press is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit indie press based in Brooklyn.[10]
Saed's publishes and exhibits her work in a wide range of venues.
In 2020, Saed gave a TEDxCUNY talk on historical research + storytelling.[11]
References
- ↑ "New Faculty Announced". Macaulay Honors College. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ "Restoring Afghan Memory: An Interview with Zohra Saed". Asia Society. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ "Macaulay Honors College". Macaulay Honors College. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ "10 Questions for Zohra Saed | Mass Review". massreview.org. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ "One Story Thirty Stories". One Story Thirty Stories. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ Foundation, Poetry (2021-09-27). "Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos, and Notebooks from Turkestan Reviewed at Publishers Weekly by Harriet Staff". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ "Eating Asian America". NYU Press. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ "GC Announces New Schomburg Center Fellows". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ Eleanor J. Bader (2019-07-31). "Origin Story: Upsetting Brooklyn". Upset Press. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "UpsetPress | UpsetPress". Retrieved 2021-09-28.
- ↑ "TEDxCUNY | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
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