Jaia Hamid Bashir

Poet

Salt Lake City, UT
Utah US
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Author's Bio

Jaia Hamid Bashir is the author of The Afterlife of Sweetness (Ohio State University Press, 2026) and the chapbook Desire/Halves (Nine Syllables, 2024). The daughter of Pakistani artists, she has published poetry in POETRY Magazine, The American Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, The Adroit Journal, Narrative, and journals across the United States and internationally.  In addition, she has published fiction in Black Warrior Review and is forthcoming in Nimrod Journal.  She is the winner of the Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize and the Ralph Hamilton Editors’ Prize from Rhino Poetry. She has been honored by the Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, the Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize, and the Best of the Net award. A graduate of Columbia University, she lives in Utah with her husband.

 

 

Publications & Prizes

Prizes won: 

2024 Charles B. Wheeler/ The Journal Prize; 2025 Ralph Hamilton Editors' Prize;  2024 Winner of the Nine Syllables Press chapbook contest; Finalist for the 2025 Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize; 2020 Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize,

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Indian, Mixed-Race, Muslim
Fluent in: 
Hindi, Urdu
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Last update: Sep 19, 2025