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Fatimah Asghar
Fatimah Asghar is an American poet, director 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. They 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.
Asghar's mother was from Jammu and Kashmir and fled with their family during Partition related violence. Their father was from Pakistan. Their parents immigrated to the United States. They both died by the time Asghar was five, leaving them an orphan. "As an orphan, something I learned was that I could never take love for granted, so I would actively build it," they told HelloGiggles in 2018.
Asghar's identity as an orphan is a major theme in their work, their poem "How'd Your Parents Die Again?" opens with the lines:
Again? As though I told you how the first time. Everyone always tries to theft, bring them back out the grave. In their poem "Super Orphan," Asghar once again explores the impact of their absence.
Woke up, parents still
dead. Outside, the leaves yawn,
re-christen themselves as spring.
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Fatimah Asghar
Fatimah Asghar is an American poet, director 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. They 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.
Asghar's mother was from Jammu and Kashmir and fled with their family during Partition related violence. Their father was from Pakistan. Their parents immigrated to the United States. They both died by the time Asghar was five, leaving them an orphan. "As an orphan, something I learned was that I could never take love for granted, so I would actively build it," they told HelloGiggles in 2018.
Asghar's identity as an orphan is a major theme in their work, their poem "How'd Your Parents Die Again?" opens with the lines:
Again? As though I told you how the first time. Everyone always tries to theft, bring them back out the grave. In their poem "Super Orphan," Asghar once again explores the impact of their absence.
Woke up, parents still
dead. Outside, the leaves yawn,
re-christen themselves as spring.