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Listed as:

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Bio:

Bassam Sidiki is a Pakistani-American writer, scholar, editor, and critic. He creative nonfiction and poetry engage with migration, illness, philosophy, and the history of empire.

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Urdu

Favorite authors:

Edward Said, Susan Sontag, Michael Ondaatje, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morisson, George Eliot, Kazuo Ishiguro, Eula Biss, Agha Shahid Ali, Cathy Park Hong, Orhan Pamuk, William Carlos Williams, Natalie Diaz, Mark Doty

Born in:

Pakistan

Website:

https://bassamsidiki.com [2]

Prizes won:

2021 Hopwood Graduate Nonfiction Award, Commendation for 2018 Hippocrats Prize for Poetry and Medicine, Honorable Mention for 2012 Ora Mary Phelam Poetry Prize

Identifies as:

Asian American