Fatimah Asghar

Fatimah Asghar is a South Asian, Muslim, and queer poet. She is also a filmmaker and educator. 

Asghar is the author of Daughter of the Mountains (One World, 2026); If They Come For Us (One World, 2018); and the chapbook After (YesYes Books, 2015). A member of the Dark Noise Collective and the writer and cocreator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls, Asghar has received fellowships from Kundiman, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Poetry Foundation. She was the Guest Editor for Poem-a-Day in January 2021.

Asghar lives in Brooklyn, New York.